Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions + request

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
> >     -> Index Scan using > teststscell13_pkey on teststscell13 data1 (cost=0.0..3.9 > rows=1 width=16) (actual time=0.006..0.006 rows=0 > loops=285) > > > > doesn't make any sense: that table will never have any > data. > > I'd like to have a way to tell that to Postgresql... > > It's one inde

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions + request

2009-08-13 Thread Richard Huxton
Scara Maccai wrote: I'm still looking into it, but it seems the difference in the 2 plans is due to the fact that when using partitions, the planner adds the time it would take to index-scan the empty "root" table. But that table will never contain any data... Is there any chance to have the p

Re: [GENERAL] totally different plan when using partitions + request

2009-08-13 Thread Scara Maccai
I'm still looking into it, but it seems the difference in the 2 plans is due to the fact that when using partitions, the planner adds the time it would take to index-scan the empty "root" table. But that table will never contain any data... Is there any chance to have the partitioning mechanism