Re: LIMIT on partitioned-table!?

On 02/15/2011 08:23 AM, Kim A. Brandt wrote:

> does `postgres (PostgreSQL) 8.4.5' use the LIMIT of a query when it
> is run on a partitioned-table or am I doing something wrong? It looks
> as if postgres queries all partitions and then LIMITing the records
> afterwards!? This results in a long (>3 minutes) running query. What
> can I do to optimise this?

Make sure you have constraint_exclusion set to 'on' in your config.
Also, what are your checks for your partitions? You've got a pretty wide
range in your 'ts' checks, so if you're using them as your partition
definition, you're not helping yourself.

The main issue might just be that you've used an order clause. LIMIT
1000 or not, even if it can restrict the result set based on your CHECK
criteria, it'll still need to select every matching row from every
matched partition, order the results, and chop off the first 1000.

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