Jason,
> Which brings us back to the original issue. If I decide to stick with
> the current implementation and not "improve our existing partitioning
> mechanisms to scale to 100,000 partitions", I could do something like:
>
> Maintain 2 copies of the parent table (partitioned by 256).
> Inherit from both to a relation table.
>
> Does this get me out of the woods with the query analyzer? Doesn't seem
> like it would, necessarily, at least.
You don't get a table's partitions when you inherit. Just the schema of
the master.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco