Tim Uckun wrote > 1. Should I be worried about having possibly hundreds of thousands of > shards. IIRC, yes. > 2. Is PG smart enough to handle overlapping constraints on table and limit > it's querying to only those tables that have the correct time constraint. Probably yes, but seems easy enough to verify. All constraints are checked for each partiton and if any return false the entire partiton will be excluded; which means multiple partitions can be included. Note, this is large reason why #1 poses a problem. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.nabble.com/Partioning-with-overlapping-and-non-overlapping-constraints-tp5836869p5836871.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general