A main issue in my case with the suggested (chapter 5.9) implementation is that child tables need to be created in advance, For a number of reasons (complex partitioning schemas, rows also related to the past and the future) it'd be unpractical to create all of them in advance. So I'm thinking about an "on demand" creation. I see two options only: 1. I check the child table existence before inserting the row or 2. I create the missing table as the result of an insert error (no table found). In case 1 I need to inspect the catalog with at least a select, while in case 2 I need to trap errors. In my (little) experience trapping errors is slow, so I would go for option 1. Unless there is a better advise. -- Vincenzo Romano NotOrAnd Information Technologies NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS 1 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general