=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn?= T Johansen <b...@havleik.no> writes:
> I have a query that looks like this...:
> select * from table where field is null

> And when I run explain, it tells me that it uses seq scan... Is this because 
> pg thinks that seq scan is as fast as using indexes or because using index on 
> "is null" queries does
> not work?

What PG version?  Releases before 8.3 do not think that IS NULL is an
indexable condition.

                        regards, tom lane

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