Wait, rereading the original queries I seem to have misunderstood something. The individual parts of the partitioned tables are being accessed in timestamp order. So what's missing is some way for the optimizer to know that the resulting append results will still be in order. If it knew that all the constraints were mutually exclusive and covered ascending ranges then it could avoid doing the extra sort. Hm... -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
