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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cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest.


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