Dingyuan Wang <gumblex@xxxxxxx> writes: > I have a table named "gps", with an indexed column "packettime", which > has unix timestamps. > The following query: > select * from gps where packettime < extract(epoch from '2017-05-01 > 08:00+08'::timestamp with time zone) > explains to: > Seq Scan on gps (cost=0.00..43411860.64 rows=384325803 width=120) > Filter: ((packettime)::double precision < date_part('epoch'::text, > '2017-05-01 08:00:00+08'::timestamp with time zone)) The reason that's not working for you is that the query is not testing packettime, it's testing packettime::float8, because date_part() returns float8. You could cast the result of date_part() to bigint, or whatever type the packettime column actually is, so that the comparison is to the unadorned variable. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general