2011/11/18 Silvio Brandani <silvio.brand...@tech.sdb.it> > On postgres 8.3.11 on linux centos 5 we have a table not too big with > primary key index on > > Indexes: > "aida_references_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (aida_reference_id) > > the query not use index: > > aidadb=# explain analyze select aida_reference_id from > aida.aida_references where aida_reference_id = '3145'; > QUERY PLAN > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------------------------**---------------------- > Seq Scan on aida_references (cost=0.00..51489.15 rows=1 width=4) (actual > time=0.173..1457.643 rows=1 loops=1) > Filter: (aida_reference_id = 3145) > Total runtime: 1457.696 ms > > > already executed the vacuum ,reindex. > > Please help > > -- > Silvio Brandani > > > Hi Silvio, how many rows do you have in the table? Usually PostgreSQL doesn't want to use index when the table is small.
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