Re: index not used

From: Litao Wu <litaowu(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: weigelt(at)metux(dot)de, postgresql performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: index not used
Date: 2005-04-21 20:39:27
Message-ID: 20050421203927.72223.qmail@web30314.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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If id is PK, the query shoudl return 1 row only...
--- Enrico Weigelt <weigelt(at)metux(dot)de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
>
> I'm doing a simple lookup in a small table by an
> unique id, and I'm
> wondering, why explains tells me seqscan is used
> instead the key.
>
> The table looks like:
>
> id bigint primary key,
> a varchar,
> b varchar,
> c varchar
>
> and I'm quering: select * from foo where id = 2;
>
> I've got only 15 records in this table, but I wanna
> have it as
> fast as possible since its used (as a map between
> IDs and names)
> for larger queries.
>
>
> thx
> --
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