On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 15:03 -0700, Gerald Fontenay wrote: > > The PostgreSQL partitioning system is aimed to support perhaps a > > hundred inherited tables. You can expect to get poor performance on > > queries if you create 1000 of them. > > Hi, > > Why is that you would expect poor performance for say 1000 or more? I > have a ~1000 inherited tables and I don't see any significant slowdowns. > I only ever access a single inherited table at a time though in this > situation. I suppose I am using inheritance only for organization in > this case... It is variable based on workload and as I recall has to do with the planning time. As the number of children increases, so does the planning time. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance