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>>> Wouldn't there need to be an index on OID for your query to be fast?
>>>
>> No, the single index on the "date" field is enough. See the EXPLAIN
>> output from my first post in the original thread:
>>
> However the original poster suggested there would ultimately be 200,000
> or more rows in the table.

Yes, and my EXPLAIN is on a table with 200,000 rows in it. Hence the fact
that it took over 5 seconds - which is still very fast compared to the
original query.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
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