On Mar 10, 2008, at 6:33 PM, LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman wrote:
Hi,
When I do a search such as:
EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM itemsbyauthor;
QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------
Seq Scan on itemsbyauthor (cost=0.00..971.34 rows=53634 width=34)
(actual time=0.029..25.831 rows=53634 loops=1)
Total runtime: 34.851 ms
(2 rows)
I have an index for the table, but it is not being utilized. Why
is this? How do I get the index to be used?
To fetch all rows unordered from a table the fastest method is a
sequential scan. An index scan would be slower, probably significantly.
Alban Hertroys
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