When partitioning key is not a part of the index and you are querying whole table, then it is faster to scan one big index than many smaller ones. The difference is something like log rows to partcount*log (rows/partcount).
> BTW, local indexes are the only way to go -- I've never
> understood the point
> of global indexes on partitioned tables -- maybe someone else can?
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