Hi, On 21 December 2012 04:29, Charles Gomes <charlesrg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I target the MASTER table on all the inserts and let > the trigger decide what partition to choose from it takes 4 hours. > > If I target the partitioned table directly during the > insert I can get 4 times better performance. It takes 1 hour. Yes, that's my experience as well. Triggers are the slowest. Performance of "DO INSTEAD" rule is close to direct inserts but rule setup is complex (each partition needs one): create or replace rule <master_table>_insert_<partition_name> as on insert to <master_table> where new.<part_column> >= ... and new.<part_column> < .... do instead insert into <master_table>_<partition_name> values (new.*) The best is used to direct inserts (into partition) if you can. -- Ondrej Ivanic (http://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejivanic) -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance