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To: Tim Haak <timh@lucidview.net>
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Subject: Re: Partitioned tables not using index for min and max 8.2.7? 
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Comments: In-reply-to Tim Haak <timh@lucidview.net>
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Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:44:46 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tim Haak <timh@lucidview.net> writes:
> I am running the following query again a partitioned table in 8.2.7. It 
> does index scans which is unexpected as there are indexes for the 
> log_date column.

The index min/max optimization only works on single tables at the
moment.  Sorry.

			regards, tom lane