Query on partitioned table on PostgreSQL

Question

I have a table partitioned by year. With this query :

select *
from myTable
where year between '2018' and '2020'

the query plan is good, only 2018,2019,2020 partitions are used.

But with this query

select *
from myTable
where year between '2018' and extract(year from now())::text

the partitions 2021 and 2022 appears in the query plan, why ?

Laurenz Albe · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-26 14:32:12Z

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In PostgreSQL v10, partition pruning (removal of unneeded partitions) can only happen at query planning time, but at that time the value of extract(year from now())::text is not known.

If you use PostgreSQL v11 or later, your query should perform as expected.

answered Feb 26, 2020 at 14:32

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