Yes , that was the case indeed. I disabled seq scan and it used the index. And the cost was higher than seq scan. Thanks a lot for all your replies. With warm regards. Vivek J. Joshi. vivek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Trikon Electronics Pvt. Ltd. All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford A. Kretschmer wrote: > >am Sat, dem 02.12.2006, um 16:35:47 +0530 mailte vivek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx folgendes: >> >> The index was created before the table was populated. There are 3 rows >> in the table for 3 different users. Now when I do a > >In this case, with only 3 rows, it is much cheaper to do a seq-scan >instead a index-scan, because a index-scan must read the index first and >then the table. And in your case, with only 3 rows, the engine needs >only one page to read. > > > >Andreas >-- >Andreas Kretschmer >Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47215, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) >GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster