> ~ 10% slowdown on trivial queries will get noticed.

Agreed.

> I just thought of a possible compromise though: maybe we could invent an
> intermediate constraint_exclusion setting that makes the checks only for
> inheritance-child tables.  This would avoid the overhead for simple
> queries and still get the benefit for most of the cases where it's
> actually useful.  I'm not sure how hard this'd be to shoehorn into the
> planner, but if it's doable it might satisfy both camps.

+1

...Robert

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