Re: POSTGRESQL Optimizer

From: Tycho Fruru <tycho(at)fruru(dot)com>
To: Tourtounis Sotiris <tourtoun(at)csd(dot)uoc(dot)gr>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: POSTGRESQL Optimizer
Date: 2002-06-21 13:01:02
Message-ID: 1024664462.1229.12.camel@kungfoo.conostix.com
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On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 14:45, Tourtounis Sotiris wrote:
> I wonder how i can enforce the PostgreSQL optimizer in order to use the
> indexes in cases of SQL queries with comparison (<,>) and not equality. I
> create a table with 4 attributes, the two of them are types of integer8 in
> PostgreSQL and i create to those 2 indexes (which by default are B+trees).
> However they didn't work. I would appreciate any comment.
try

select * from foo where bar > '12345';

insted of

select * from foo where bar > 12345;

did you vacuum analyze before ?

Cheers
Tycho

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