Re: Indices are not used by the optimizer

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Reiner Dassing <dassing(at)wettzell(dot)ifag(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Indices are not used by the optimizer
Date: 2003-05-05 13:33:05
Message-ID: 1052141584.9846.24.camel@jester
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Are you really expecting 19 million rows to be returned -- are you
really going to use them all?

How about explain analyze output?

Have you tried using a cursor to allow for parallel processing? (pull
1000 rows, do work, pull next 1000 rows, do work, etc.)

> wetter=# explain select * from wetter where epoche > '2001-01-01';
> QUERY PLAN
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Seq Scan on wetter (cost=0.00..614795.55 rows=19054156 width=16)
> Filter: (epoche > '2001-01-01 00:00:00+00'::timestamp with time zone)
> (2 rows)

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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>

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