Re: Seq Scan

On Lun 28 May 2001 19:24, Linh Luong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to execute this query I wrote and it is not returning at a
> reasonable time to the browser. I took the query and ran EXPLAIN on it
> and it displayed that every JOIN I do it is doing a Seq Scan on it. I
> have indexes on that table but it doesn't seem to use it.
>
> Is there a way I can ensure that postgres will use my indexes?

When Postgres doesn´t use indexes, it´s because sequencial scans are faster
(I think the normal case would be a table with not so much rows).
AFAIK, the planer is who does this, and it uses internal data which was
gathered during a VACUUM analyze.

So I would do a VACUUM analyze and the re-run the EXPLAIN to see what it
shows.

Saludos... :-)

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