Generally, when you partition, data should only be in child tables, and the parent table should be empty, otherwise you defeat the purpose of parttioning.`
> Have you set up constraints on the partitions? The planner needs to know > what is in the child tables so it can avoid scanning them.
Yes. each child table is defined as follows
CREATE TABLE TSTESTING.ACCOUNT_PART1
( CHECK (ACCOUNT_ROW_INST BETWEEN 1001 and 271660))
INHERITS (TSTESTING.ACCOUNT);
ALTER TABLE TSTESTING.ACCOUNT_PART1 ADD CONSTRAINT ACCOUNT_PART1_PKEY PRIMARY KEY (ACCOUNT_ROW_INST);
Perhaps I was not clear. The planner is excluding partitions which can not contain the rows looked up in the WHERE clause. However it is still scanning the parent table.
Aggregate (cost=8.45..8.46 rows=1 width=0) -> Append (cost=0.00..8.44 rows=2 width=0) -> Seq Scan on account (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=1 width=0) Filter: (account_row_inst = 101) -> Index Only Scan using account_part1_pkey on account_part1 (cost=0.42..8.44 rows=1 width=0) Index Cond: (account_row_inst = 101) (6 rows)