On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:08:15PM +0200, Marcus Engene wrote: > In this select, it would have been nice to dodge the full table scan > without adding an index to created_at. Is this possible somehow? yes. 1. drop condition on created_at 2. run the query as cursor 3. fetch rows from cursor until you will get row that has unsatisfactory created_at. Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/ jid/gtalk: depesz@xxxxxxxxxx / aim:depeszhdl / skype:depesz_hdl / gg:6749007