"Waldo, Ethan" <ewaldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This query does a sequence scan and append across all the partition tables: > select "dates"."date_description" FROM "myfact" as "myfact", "dates" as "dates" where "myfact"."recorded_on_id" = "dates"."recorded_on_id" and "dates"."recorded_on_id" IN ('4617', '4618', '4619', '4620', '4621', '4622', '4623', '4624', '4625', '4626', '4627', '4628', '4629', '4630', '4631', '4632', '4633', '4634', '4635', '4636', '4637', '4638', '4639', '4640', '4641', '4642', '4643', '4644', '4645', '4646', '4647'); When I try that in 9.1, I get a plan with inner indexscans for each child table; which, while not exactly what you're asking for, should perform well enough when the fact table is large enough that partitioning is actually a useful activity. I suspect you're committing one of the ten deadly sins of Postgres optimization, which is to assume that the plan you get on a toy test case is the same plan you'd get for monster tables. Planning choices are nonlinear. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general