On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 06:30:15AM -0700, Anj Adu wrote: > We are testing 8.4 and noticed that the performance of > > select max(indexed_col) from parent_Table > > is the same (slow) as postgres 8.1.x ( our current version). The > child tables are huge and the indexed_col is not the basis for > partitioning. > > I remember that this was an issue from an earlier thread where the > optimizer was not able to use the child partitions only to get the max > value. Is this true for 8.4 ? > This is still a problem as of 8.4. Regards, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin