Sebastián Baioni escribió: > Hello, > Whe are running PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305. > The query only uses the index if we have a "limit n": > Without "Limit n" > explain > select esapcuit, esapcuil > from esact00 t1 > order by esapcuit, esapcuil > > Sort (cost=843833.82..853396.76 rows=3825177 width=30) > Sort Key: esapcuit, esapcuil > -> Seq Scan on esact00 t1 (cost=0.00..111813.77 rows=3825177 width=30) That's right. What else did you expect? It estimates it has to return 3 million rows after all -- using an indexscan would be slow. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/DXLWNGRJD34J "Puedes vivir solo una vez, pero si lo haces bien, una vez es suficiente" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
