On Wednesday 24 February 2010 07:55:36 A. Kretschmer wrote: > In response to Kevin Kempter : > > Hi All; > > > > I have a table that has daily partitions. > > > > The check constraints look like this: > > CHECK (timezone('EST'::text, insert_dt) >= '2010-01-01'::date > > AND timezone('EST'::text, insert_dt) < '2010-01-02'::date) > > > > each partition has this index: > > "fact_idx1_20100101_on_cust_id" btree (cust_id) > > > > If I run an explain hitting an individual partition I get an index scan: > > > > explain select distinct cust_id from children.fact_20100101; > > > > QUERY PLAN > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------------------- Unique (cost=0.00..136891.18 > > rows=70296 width=38) > > -> Index Scan using fact_idx1_20100101_on_cust_id on fact_20100101 > > (cost=0.00..133112.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > However the same query against the base table when specifying the check > > constraint key in the where clause produces sequential scans: > > Have you set constraint_exclusion = on? Yes. > > > explain select distinct cust_id from fact > > where timezone('EST'::text, insert_dt) between '2010-01-01'::date > > and '2010-01-02'::date; > > Can you show the table definition? I'm not sure about the > timezone()-function and index... Table "fact_20100101" Column | Type | Modifiers -----------------------------+---------------------------------------+----------- insert_dt | timestamp with time zone | cust_order_id | integer | user_row_id | integer | cust_id | character varying(40) | order_items | integer | catalog_id | integer | online_order_id_num | character varying(255) | order_id | integer | promotion_key | integer | sales_region_id | integer | country_id | integer | Indexes: index_fact_20100101_on_insert_dt btree (insert_dt) index_fact_20100101_on_catalog_id btree (catalog_id) index_fact_20100101_on_promotion_key btree (promotion_key) index_fact_20100101_on_order_id btree (order_id) index_fact_20100101_on_cust_order_id btree (cust_order_id) index_fact_20100101_on_user_row_id btree (user_row_id) index_fact_20100101_on_cust_id btree (cust_id) Check constraints: fact_20100101_insert_dt_check CHECK (timezone('EST'::text, insert_dt) >= '2010-01-01'::date AND timezone('EST'::text, insert_dt) < '2010-01-02'::date) Foreign-key constraints: fk_country_id" FOREIGN KEY (country_id) REFERENCES country_dim(id) fk_catalog_id" FOREIGN KEY (catalog_id) REFERENCES catalog_dim(id) fk_promotion_key" FOREIGN KEY (promotion_key) REFERENCES promotion_dim(id) fk_order_id" FOREIGN KEY (order_id) REFERENCES order_dim(id) Inherits: fact > > Maybe you should try to rewrite your code to: > > between '2010-01-01 00:00'::timestamp and ... This (and other date variations gives me index scans however each time I get the planner to do an index scan it also refuses to do partition exclusion. The original query above gives me partition exclusion but table scans (no index scans) > > > Andreas > -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance