2011/11/18 Silvio Brandani <silvio.brandani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On postgres 8.3.11 on linux centos 5 we have a table not too big with primary key index on
Indexes:
"aida_references_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (aida_reference_id)
the query not use index:
aidadb=# explain analyze select aida_reference_id from aida.aida_references where aida_reference_id = '3145';
QUERY PLAN
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Seq Scan on aida_references (cost=0.00..51489.15 rows=1 width=4) (actual time=0.173..1457.643 rows=1 loops=1)
Filter: (aida_reference_id = 3145)
Total runtime: 1457.696 ms
already executed the vacuum ,reindex.
Please help
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Silvio Brandani
Hi Silvio,
how many rows do you have in the table?
Usually PostgreSQL doesn't want to use index when the table is small.
regards
Szymon
http://simononsoftware.com/
