On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Pablo Alcaraz wrote: > it would be nice to do something with selects so we can recover a rowset > on huge tables using a criteria with indexes without fall running a full > scan. You mean: Be able to tell Postgres "Don't ever do a sequential scan of this table. It's silly. I would rather the query failed than have to wait for a sequential scan of the entire table." Yes, that would be really useful, if you have huge tables in your database. Matthew -- Trying to write a program that can't be written is... well, it can be an enormous amount of fun! -- Computer Science Lecturer ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend