Hi, I'm testing the system with these two insert commands: 1) this command returns an empty result set: insert into support.master (a) VALUES (2) RETURNING seq; 2) this command returns correctly the seq (serial) value into result set: insert into support.partitionB (a) VALUES (2) RETURNING seq; I'm doing something wrong? I'm using the following DDL to create the partitioning tables, trigger and so on ... create table support.master( seq serial, a INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ); create table support.partitionA( CHECK (a = 1) ) INHERITS (support.master); create table support.partitionB( CHECK (a = 2) ) INHERITS (support.master); create table support.partitionC( CHECK (a = 3) ) INHERITS (support.master); create table support.partitionD( CHECK (a = 4) ) INHERITS (support.master); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION support.master_insert() RETURNS trigger AS $BODY$ BEGIN IF ( NEW.a = 1) THEN INSERT INTO support.partitionA VALUES (NEW. *); ELSIF ( NEW.a = 2) THEN INSERT INTO support.partitionB VALUES (NEW.*); ELSIF ( NEW.a = 3) THEN INSERT INTO support.partitionC VALUES (NEW.*); ELSIF ( NEW.a = 4) THEN INSERT INTO support.partitionD VALUES (NEW.*); ELSE RAISE EXCEPTION 'A (%)is out of range ',NEW.a; END IF; RETURN NULL; END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; CREATE TRIGGER master_insert_trigger BEFORE INSERT ON support.master FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE support.master_insert(); Regards, Paolo SCARICA TISCALI WIPHONE: parla e invia SMS gratis dal tuo cellulare. http://wiphone.tiscali.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general