On 13/11/13 20:21, Jeff Janes wrote: > The planner uses the check constraints to reason about the relation > between each partition separately and the query, not between the > different partitions. So while it may be possible to know that all rows > in 2013_4 must be greater than all in 2013_3, it doesn't make use of > that, instead taking the greatest value from each partition and putting > it in a priority queue. So the one row from each table acts as a > sentinel to prove that more rows from that table are not needed. That makes perfect sense. Thank you very much. Torsten -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general