Simon, you're right on the money.. the guys on the IRC chatroom suggested that I cast the partitioning column as SMALLINT as the optimizer assumed Integer and it worked. Thx for getting back to me Mark Steben AutoRevenue -----Original Message----- From: Simon Riggs [mailto:simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:39 PM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Question on partitioning 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-PARTITIO NING-CAVEATS especially the ones about cross-datatype comparisons in CHECK constraints. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
