On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:13 -0500, Mark Steben wrote: > Regarding partitioning – I set up a testing table – parent table and 4 > partitioning children’s tables inheriting the > > Attributes of the parent. I inserted 1800 rows in all – 450 equitably > in each partition. The CHECK constraints work great. > > The PART_ID column, defined as SMALLINT, Is the partitioning > column. > You'll probably want to look at the caveats here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-CAVEATS especially the ones about cross-datatype comparisons in CHECK constraints. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com