On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I always thought I would not be the kind of person who writes to this > list asking why the planner is using a sequential scan. I always looked > upon such people as newcomers who would eventually learn the mysterious > wonders of the Pg query execution planner. > > But really, this plan is bizarre! Why is it scanning sequentially for > ONE tuple as selected by the primary key? I even increased stats to > 1000 and disable seq_scan, but it still insists it cannot do an index > scan. What version are you using? If it's not 8.0.x, I'd guess this is the old cannot use indexes from cross-integer type comparisons issue, and you may want to explicitly cast or quote that 2143888. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend