2011/2/2, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> I see the database doesn't understand that there are no entries in the >> main table, so it has to assume the Append data is not ordered. Is >> there a way to avoid sorting? > > No. In existing releases there is no plan type that can produce > presorted output from an append relation (ie, an inheritance tree). > 9.1 will be able to do that, but it wasn't exactly a small fix: > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=11cad29c91524aac1d0b61e0ea0357398ab79bf8 OK, I hope I'll be able to come up with a stored procedure to query the tables directly, then. Thanks! -- DoubleF -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general