Re: BUG #5652: Optimizer does wrong thing with partitioned tables

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
Cc: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5652: Optimizer does wrong thing with partitioned tables
Date: 2010-09-17 01:29:19
Message-ID: AANLkTi=8HaHLehroY+ZzcJY8M5KG5xKxndKH+pZeud9T@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Euler Taveira de Oliveira
<euler(at)timbira(dot)com> wrote:
> Mladen Gogala escreveu:
>> Optimizer chooses to scan each partitioned table sequentially, instead of
>> using the available index:
>>
> This is not a bug. How would the optimizer know that the maximum value is in
> that specific partition? There is neither a global index for a partitioned
> table nor an optimizer artifact to know aggregate information before scanning
> all of the partitions. Maybe when we have a better support for table
> partitioning such optimizer artifact would be implemented but don't hold your
> breath.

I wonder if Merge Append could be made to help with this case.

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Robert Haas
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