am Wed, dem 12.12.2007, um 11:44:58 +0000 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hi, > I am having PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on Suse 10.3 > > Server is not using the index insted it chooses to take seq scan path. table is > having @ 120 million rows > > here is the output from planner: > Nested Loop IN Join (cost=0.00..5030217.97 rows=2 width=106) > -> Seq Scan on sms_new (cost=0.00..5027902.00 rows=384 width=106) > Filter: (mobile = 919820920858::bigint) > -> Index Scan using deliveryid_pkey on delivery (cost=0.00..6.02 rows=1 > width=8) > Index Cond: ("outer".deliveryid = delivery.deliveryid) > Filter: ((createddate > '2007-12-11 00:00:00'::timestamp without time > zone) AND (createddate < '2007-12-11 21:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) > AND ((keyword)::text = 'CRI'::text)) > > column deliveryid has an index over it in sms_new table. > > can anybody please guide to force the usage of index It's using an index on "deliveryid": Index Scan using deliveryid_pkey Do you have an index on "mobile"? Can you show us the table definition and the output from EXPLAIN ANALYSE? Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly