Re: Weird issue with planner choosing seq scan

From: Sean Leach <sleach(at)wiggum(dot)com>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Stephen Denne" <Stephen(dot)Denne(at)datamail(dot)co(dot)nz>, pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Weird issue with planner choosing seq scan
Date: 2008-02-25 00:05:18
Message-ID: 1865C113-5FE9-4ED4-9472-EA6758D05FA3@wiggum.com
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On Feb 24, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> The fact that your indexes are bloated but your table is not makes me
> wonder if you're not running a really old version of pgsql that had
> problems with monotonically increasing indexes bloating over time and
> requiring reindexing.
>
> That problem has been (for the most part) solved by some hacking Tom
> Lane did some time back.
>
> What version pgsql is this? If it's pre 8.0 it might be worth looking
> into migrating for performance and maintenance reasons.

It's the latest 8.3.0 release :(

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