Re: How to make use of partitioned table for faster query?

Suppose the table 'attendance' is very large:

id bigint

student_name varchar

late boolean

record_timestamp timestamp

The table is already partitioned by year (attendance_2012p, attendance_2013p, ...).

I would like to count the number of lates by year.

Instead of specifying the partition tables name:

select count(*) from attendance_2012p where student_name="Student A" and late='true';

select count(*) from attendance_2013p where student_name="Student A" and late='true';
select count(*) from attendance_2014p where student_name="Student A" and late='true';
...

Is it possible to query the master table attendance), and the query could make use of the partitioned table for faster query?

select student_name as student,extract(year from record_timestamp) as year, count(*) as count_lates from attendance where late group by 1,2;

now, if your partitioning is by school year, that will be somewhat trickier.   what are your partitioning expression ?

as far as faster, well, your query has to read from all of the tables.   there won't be any speedup from partition pruning...

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