"Huang, Suya" <Suya.Huang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > For the first point you made, you're right. The real execution time varies a lot from the explain analyze, the query on parent table are just as fast as it is on the child table. is this a bug of explain analyze command? While we reading the execution plan, shall we ignore the top Append/Result nodes? Well, it's a "bug" of gettimeofday(): it takes more than zero time, in fact quite a lot more than zero time. Complain to your local kernel hacker, and/or the chief of engineering at Intel. There aren't any easy fixes available for us: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/31856.1400021891@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > For the second point, I created the test partition table using CTAS statement so there's no insert/update/delete on the test table. But on the production non-partition table, there might be such operations ran against them. But the reason why it takes 3 seconds to get the first row, might because it's non-partitioned so it has to scan the whole table to get the first correct record? This non-partitioned table has ~ 30 million rows while the partition of the table only has ~ 5 million rows. Oh, so the extra time is going into reading rows that fail the filter condition? Well, that's not surprising. That's exactly *why* you partition tables, so queries can skip entire child tables rather than having to look at and reject individual rows. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
