If you have a table with a bunch of children, and these children all have a primary key which is generated from the same sequence, assuming that you're partitioning based on date (ie, this is a transaction record table), it would be nice if the planner could spot that all tables have a primary key on a column used as a join condition, check the min / max to see if there is overlap between tables, then apply CBE as if constraints existed.
This strikes me as a pretty common situation, certainly we're seeing it here. Andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq