On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> writes:
>> We're finding it more and more common for people to define partitioned
>> table views with hundreds or thousands of union branches.
>
> Really? Given how poorly the system performs with that many inheritance
> children, I've got a hard time believing either that this is common or
> that ruleutils is your worst problem with it.
Doesn't make it a bad idea to fix it. You may need hundreds or
thousands of union branches for this to totally break the world, but
you only need about five for it to be annoying.
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