On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 12:30 +0200, Paolo Magnoli wrote: > It would be good to have an insert behaviour similar to Oracle by default.
OK, thanks. > Also I see that the original table is always scanned, partition exclusion > happens only on the derived tables, is this correct? Yes, though if you avoid placing any rows in that table it is quick. I expect to remove that restriction in 8.2 by declarative SQL. Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match