Hello, I have tested it with release 11 and limit 20 is pushed to each partition when using index on tmstmp. Could you tell us what is the result of your query applyed to one partition EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT "a"."id" FROM a_partition1 "a" WHERE "a"."parent_id" IN ( 34226,24506,40987,27162 ) ORDER BY "a"."tmstmp" DESC LIMIT 20; May be that limit 20 is not pushed to partitions in your version ? Regards PAscal -- Sent from: http://www.postgresql-archive.org/PostgreSQL-performance-f2050081.html