Re: inheritance performance

From: ken <southerland(at)samsixedd(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: inheritance performance
Date: 2005-01-21 17:58:39
Message-ID: 1106330319.6622.276.camel@pesky.s6portland
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 08:14, Greg Stark wrote:
> ken <southerland(at)samsixedd(dot)com> writes:
>
> > >From my understanding, all the data for these columns in all the child
> > tables will be stored in this one parent table
>
> No, all the data is stored in the child table.

So if you perform a "select * from parent" then does postgres internally
create a union between all the child tables and return you the results
of that?

ken

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