Re: How do I convice postgres to use an index?

Try casting the constant to the type of the field, i.e.

WHERE timestamp >= '7/12/2004'::"timestamp without time zone"

(iirc the quotes are necessary)

Also, I'd try to avoid naming attributes like (built-in) types. (iirc
"timestamp" is a type without time zone in 7.3, and with time zone in 7.4 :)
"timestamptz" is the opposite in both cases)

G.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vic Ricker" <vic(at)ricker(dot)us>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 10:29 PM

> I apologize for the following stupid question. I have been doing some
> searching and haven't found anything really helpful.
>
> The problem is that postgres (7.4.2) keeps choosing to do a sequential
> scan on a table when an index scan would be significantly faster.
>
> The queries that I'm using look at daily statistics from events logged
> by our Checkpoint firewall and generate graphs. Since they are bit
> complicated, I simplified it to "select count(*) from log where
> timestamp>='7/12/2004'" for testing.