After a long battle with technology, antonypaul24@xxxxxxxxx (Antony Paul), an earthling, wrote: > Hi all, > I have a table which have more than 200000 records. I need to get > the records which matches like this > > where today::date = '2004-11-05'; > > This is the only condition in the query. There is a btree index on the > column today. > Is there any way to optimise it. How about changing the criterion to: where today between '2004-11-05' and '2004-11-06'; That ought to make use of the index on "today". -- "cbbrowne","@","ntlug.org" http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/sgml.html "People need to quit pretending they can invent THE interface and walk away from it, like some Deist fantasy." -- Michael Peck