Re: Dealing with SeqScans when Time-based Partitions Cut Over

On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 at 08:55, Matthew Planchard <msplanchard@gmail.com> wrote:
> > How about just force seqscan off when the table is created?
> > ALTER TABLE <table_partition> SET (enable_seqscan  = off);
>
> I didn't know this could be set on the table level! Our partitions are
> created by partman, but we have a nightly job that does maintenance
> stuff that could go through and update this setting on future partitions
> before they come into use. I'm always hesitant to mess
> too much with the planner, but this might be the ticket.

You thought correctly. There's no such reloption.