On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 19:11, Mark Harrison wrote:
> I have indexed two columns in a table.  Can somebody explain to me why
> the first query below uses an Index Scan while the second uses a Seq
> Scan?

The first expects to find a single row, the second expects to find 17000
rows, a significant portion of the table where an index scan would be a
loss based on current tuning parameters.

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Rod Taylor <pg [at] rbt [dot] ca>

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