I'm trying to partition my table on the first octet of an ip4 column and can't seem to get the planner to do the constraint_exclusion. The following SQL (copied by hand): CREATE TABLE a (ip ip4); CREATE TABLE a_1 ( CHECK (ip <<= '1.0.0.0/8' ) INHERITS(a); CREATE TABLE a_2 ( CHECK (ip <<= '2.0.0.0/8' ) INHERITS(a); CREATE TABLE a_3 ( CHECK (ip <<= '3.0.0.0/8' ) INHERITS(a); CREATE TABLE a_4 ( CHECK (ip <<= '4.0.0.0/8' ) INHERITS(a); SET constraint_exclusion = on; EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM a WHERE ip <<= '1.0.0.0/8' tells me that its going to do a sequential scan across all of the tables. Couple of questions: -Can you see anything immediate/stupid that I'm doing wrong? I'm thinking that maybe it has something to do with the constraint types ... -Does the partitioning understand the '<<=' check? I created a set of trial tables that used '=' instead on the ip4 column and things behaved as they should. -If I have overlapping/duplicate constraints, will constraint_exclusion scan only the tables that satisfy the constraints, or will it get confused and bail? I'm thinking of having a 'normal' and an 'old' partition on the same octet, so the check constraint will be the same for both of them. -Will the planner use the constraint exclusion if my queries are of the form " ip = '1.2.3.4' ", i.e. does the planner understand that '<<=' provides a superset of '='? Thanks -Mike
