On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 12:37:14PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I'm thinking, an SQL query might be more efficient if you want to
> qualify the query further.  For example, give me all tables in this tree
> that match '2018'.  If you wrote your functions as SQL-language
> functions, the optimizer could perhaps inline them and optimize them
> further.

Are you thinking about SQL functions here?  Here is an example of query
able to fetch an entire partition tree.
WITH RECURSIVE partition_info
          (relid,
           relname,
           relsize,
           relispartition,
           relkind) AS (
        SELECT oid AS relid,
               relname,
               pg_relation_size(oid) AS relsize,
               relispartition,
               relkind
        FROM pg_catalog.pg_class
        WHERE relname = 'your_parent_table_name_here' AND
              relkind = 'p'
      UNION ALL
        SELECT
             c.oid AS relid,
             c.relname AS relname,
             pg_relation_size(c.oid) AS relsize,
             c.relispartition AS relispartition,
             c.relkind AS relkind
        FROM partition_info AS p,
             pg_catalog.pg_inherits AS i,
             pg_catalog.pg_class AS c
        WHERE p.relid = i.inhparent AND
             c.oid = i.inhrelid AND
             c.relispartition
      )
    SELECT * FROM partition_info;

Getting the direct parent is immediate, and getting the top-most parent
would be rather similar to that.  Not much elegant in my opinion, but
that's mainly a matter of taste?
--
Michael

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