Hello
I've got a table with an index, let's call it fase.
The following query is fine: 'select something from table where fase = '1';
However, this is disastrously slow:
select something from table where fase = '1' or fase = '2';
The reason is that the query planner decides to ignore the index, and goes for
a sequential scan of the table (with a couple of million records).
If I do:
select something from table where fase = '1'
union
select something from table where fase = '2';
it's fine again, but it's a lot of typing, and the first formulation has a
more natural feel to it.
Is there a way to convince the planner to use the fase index for this type of
query, or is there a hook somewhere that I missed that allows me to rewrite
a query like the above with a server-side function ?
Thanks in advance,
Han Holl
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