Queries with timestamp II

From: "Arnau" <arnaulist(at)andromeiberica(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Queries with timestamp II
Date: 2004-01-26 14:12:38
Message-ID: 049101c3e416$74023120$3c0aa8c0@iberica.andromeiberica.com
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Hi all,

First of all thanks to Josh and Richard for their replies. What I have
done to test
their indications is the following. I have created a new table identical to
STATISTICS,
and an index over the TIMESTAMP_IN field.

CREATE TABLE STATISTICS2
(
STATISTIC_ID NUMERIC(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT
NEXTVAL('STATISTIC_ID_SEQ')
CONSTRAINT pk_st_statistic2_id PRIMARY KEY,
TIMESTAMP_IN TIMESTAMP,
VALUE NUMERIC(10)
);

CREATE INDEX i_stats2_tin ON STATISTICS2(TIMESTAMP_IN);

After that I inserted the data from STATISTICS and vacuumed the DB:

INSERT INTO STATISTICS2 ( SELECT * FROM STATISTICS );
vacuumdb -f -z -d test

once the vacuum has finished I do the following query

explain analyze select * from statistics2 where timestamp_in <
to_timestamp( '20031201', 'YYYYMMDD' );
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:

Seq Scan on statistics2 (cost=0.00..638.00 rows=9289 width=35) (actual
time=0.41..688.34 rows=27867 loops=1)
Total runtime: 730.82 msec

That query is not using the index. Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you very much

--
Arnau

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