Re: No hash join across partitioned tables?

Sam Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com>

From: Samuel Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>, pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-10-18T06:13:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com>wrote:

> Excerpts from Samuel Gendler's message of sáb oct 16 02:35:46 -0300 2010:
>
> > An issue with automatically analyzing the entire hierarchy is 'abstract'
> > table definitions.  I've got a set of tables for storing the same data at
> > different granularities of aggregation.  Within each granularity, I've
> got
> > partitions, but because the set of columns is identical for each
> > granularity, I've got an abstract table definition that is inherited by
> > everything.  I don't need or want statistics kept on that table because I
> > never query across the abstract table, only the parent table of each
> > aggregation granularity
>
> Hmm, I think you'd be better served by using LIKE instead of regular
> inheritance.
>
>
Yep.  I inherited the architecture, though, and changing it hasn't been a
high priority.

--sam