I'm interested in why the two partitions dev4_act_dy_fact and
> dev4_act_dy_fact_2010_05_t3 are treated so differently. I'm guessing that
> the former is the parent and the latter the child table?
Yes..you are correct.
>
> When accessing the parent table, Postgres is able to use a bitmap AND index
> scan, because it has the two indexes dev4_act_dy_dm_nd_indx and
> dev4_act_dy_dm_cd_indx. Do the child tables have a similar index setup?
Yes..the child table have indexes on those fields as well
>
> Incidentally, you could get even better than a bitmap AND index scan by
> creating an index on (node_id, thedate) on each table.
Will this perform better than separate indexes ?
>
>> random_page_cost=1
>
> I agree with Tomas that this is rarely a useful setting.
>
> Matthew
>
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