Re: I could not get postgres to utilizy indexes

From: Thomas Swan <tswan(at)idigx(dot)com>
To: Igor Artimenko <iartimenko(at)bluecatnetworks(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I could not get postgres to utilizy indexes
Date: 2004-08-18 17:12:26
Message-ID: 41238DFA.1030207@idigx.com
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Igor Artimenko wrote:

>Hi verybody!
>
>I can't make use of indexes even I tried the same test by changing different settings in postgres.conf like geqo to off/on & geqo related parameters, enable_seqscan off/on & so on. Result is the same.
>
>Here is test itself:
>
>I've created simplest table test and executed the same statement "explain analyze select id from test where id = 50000;" Few times I added 100,000 records, applied vacuum full; and issued above explain command.
>Postgres uses sequential scan instead of index one.
>Of cause Time to execute the same statement constantly grows. In my mind index should not allow time to grow so much.
>
>Why Postgres does not utilizes primary unique index?
>What I'm missing? It continue growing even there are 1,200,000 records. It should at least start using index at some point.
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Igor, you may want to run "vacuum analyze" and see if your results change.

Thomas

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