Jason, > Which brings us back to the original issue. If I decide to stick with > the current implementation and not "improve our existing partitioning > mechanisms to scale to 100,000 partitions", I could do something like: > > Maintain 2 copies of the parent table (partitioned by 256). > Inherit from both to a relation table. > > Does this get me out of the woods with the query analyzer? Doesn't seem > like it would, necessarily, at least.
You don't get a table's partitions when you inherit. Just the schema of the master. -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match