Maybe there is a solution equivalent to ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, with some BEFORE INSERT TRIGGERS returning NULL when row already exists. Something like: create table tabpart (account_id integer not null, customer_id integer not null, date_added date ) partition by list (date_added); create table tabpart1 partition of tabpart for values in ('2018-10-24'); create table tabpart2 partition of tabpart for values in ('2018-10-25'); ... create index tabpart_index_id on tabpart(account_id,customer_id); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_check_pkey() RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ BEGIN IF count(1) >= 1 FROM tabpart WHERE account_id = NEW.account_id AND customer_id = NEW.customer_id THEN RETURN NULL; ELSE RETURN NEW; END IF; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql ; applied for each partition CREATE TRIGGER check_pkey BEFORE INSERT ON tabpart1 FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.f_check_pkey(); CREATE TRIGGER check_pkey BEFORE INSERT ON tabpart2 FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.f_check_pkey(); ... postgres=# insert into tabpart values (1,1,'2018-10-24'); INSERT 0 1 postgres=# insert into tabpart values (1,1,'2018-10-24'); INSERT 0 0 postgres=# insert into tabpart values (1,1,'2018-10-25'); INSERT 0 0 If you want to be informed of Duplicated rows you can add : IF count(1) >= 1 FROM tabpart WHERE account_id = NEW.account_id AND customer_id = NEW.customer_id THEN RAISE NOTICE 'duplicate key value violates unique constraint "%" ON "%"', TG_NAME, TG_TABLE_NAME USING DETAIL = format('Key (account_id,customer_id)=(%s,%s) already exists.',NEW.account_id, NEW.customer_id); RETURN NULL; ELSE -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-admin-f2076596.html