Re: Partitioning and performance

> Have you set up constraints on the partitions? The planner needs to know
> what is in the child tables so it can avoid scanning them.

Yes. each child table is defined as follows

CREATE TABLE TSTESTING.ACCOUNT_PART1

( CHECK (ACCOUNT_ROW_INST BETWEEN 1001 and 271660))

INHERITS (TSTESTING.ACCOUNT);

ALTER TABLE TSTESTING.ACCOUNT_PART1 ADD CONSTRAINT ACCOUNT_PART1_PKEY
PRIMARY KEY (ACCOUNT_ROW_INST);

Perhaps I was not clear. The planner is excluding partitions which can
not contain the rows looked up in the WHERE clause. However it is
still scanning the parent table.

Aggregate (cost=8.45..8.46 rows=1 width=0)
-> Append (cost=0.00..8.44 rows=2 width=0)
-> Seq Scan on account (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=1 width=0)
Filter: (account_row_inst = 101)
-> Index Only Scan using account_part1_pkey on account_part1
(cost=0.42..8.44 rows=1 width=0)
Index Cond: (account_row_inst = 101)
(6 rows)