Hi Stephen,
Constraint exclusion was initially partition and I set it to "on" as suggested and tried that - the query planner in both cases was correctly identifying the specific partitions being queried - the problem seems to be a generic issue related to the way queries on partition tables are handled and how the order by / limit is applied in this scenario.
Thanks,
Ranga
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:26:23 -0400
> From: sfrost@snowman.net
> To: ranga_gopalan@hotmail.com
> CC: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Question about partitioned query behavior
>
> Ranga,
>
> * Ranga Gopalan (ranga_gopalan@hotmail.com) wrote:
> > It seems that this is an issue faced by others as well - Please see this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2236776/efficient-querying-of-multi-partition-postgres-table
> >
> > Is this a known bug? Is this something that someone is working on or is there a known work around?
>
> Actually, if you look at that, the problem the original poster had was
> that they didn't have constraint_exclusion turned on. Then they were
> complaining about having the (empty) master table and the needed
> partition included (which, really, shouldn't be that big a deal).
>
> Did you look at what the other reply suggested? Do you have
> constraint_exclusion = 'on' in your postgresql.conf?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
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