Speaking of partitioning, I see there some improvements planed for this feature in 8.3 - any info on what exactly users can expect? Any possibility to improve it so we don't have to add insert trigger that selects the right table for operation? Also, propagation of Alter table on inherited tables is a sweat feature... :)
Interesting thought, but joins are expensive --- this would be quite a lot slower than the current way, I fear, especially when you consider more than one level of inheritance. Also, switching over to this would destroy the current usefulness of inheritance for partitioning. regards, tom lane
-- vlad