I can't believe I am the first one to respond to this :)
On 6/27/05, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 01:41 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>> The main purpose of this feature is to reduce access time against large
>> tables that have been split into partitions by using the PostgreSQL
>> inheritance facility. It has been written in a very generic way allowing
>> a whole range of applications.
>>
>> If
>> a) a table is part of an inheritance set
>> b) the table has check constraints defined upon it
>> c) enable_constraint_exclusion = true
>> Main questions:
>> 2. Should this feature be available for all queries or just inherited
>> relations?
I think this feature would be useful as well for home-brewn
partitioning implementations based on a view of unions instead of
inheritance.
But I have to admit to having some doubts about the tradeoff in CPU
cycles for this very specific case: if somebody wants to benefit from
this new feature he has to upgrade to 8.2 anyway and changing from a
view to inheritance is not that drastic.
Jochem