Querying w/ join slow for large/many child tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Wells Oliver
Subject Querying w/ join slow for large/many child tables
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Msg-id CAOC+FBVMRLnbKCwMKpHYu3buHe2h2sztxS2fk7r_rBq=05nMFg@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Querying w/ join slow for large/many child tables  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Re: Querying w/ join slow for large/many child tables  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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I have a primary parent table with a child table per week of the year for each week back through 2015. There are a lot of child tables. Each week's child table has maybe  80-110m rows.

When I join to the parent table on a column, it's very slow, but when I manually specify the specific week's child table, it's quite fast, e.g.

Slow:
select * from foo
join schema.mytable on foo.col = mytable.col

vs. fast:
select * from foo
join schema.mytable_2015_wk33 as mytable on foo.col = mytable.col

What's the resolution to make querying the table faster in terms of it finding the appropriate child table? Is it putting an index on `col` on each child table? Some other thing?

Thank you.

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