[Peter Childs - Fri at 08:56:54AM +0000]
> Can you say what state might be rather than what it is not. I'm guess
> that state is an int but there is only a limited list of possible
> states, if you can say what it might be rather than what it is the
> index is more liklly to be used.
explain select * from events where state in (1,2,3) and event_time<now()
also estimates almost 5k of rows. I also tried:
explain select * from events where state=2 and event_time<now()
but get the same behaviour.
Maybe it would help to partitionate the table every year?