Re: Any way to favor index scans, but not bitmap index scans?

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Any way to favor index scans, but not bitmap index scans?
Date: 2008-07-23 18:23:00
Message-ID: dcc563d10807231123v5e97c955nbf61c928d85897c5@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Francisco Reyes
<lists(at)stringsutils(dot)com> wrote:
> On 12:40 pm 07/23/08 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> That's fairly hard to believe. Care to offer some details?
>
>
> I will dig that actual project and run explain analyze. Will likely not
> have it till middle of next week though because of a monthly process
> starting out Friday.
>
> However, I do have a current example where bitmap index scan was 3 times
> worse. On the extremely bad case the data set was 5 times larger than the
> sample below (1+ billion vs 215 million).

What is your work_mem set to?

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