Hello,
Can anybody suggest any hint on this:
temp=> EXPLAIN SELECT DISTINCT "number" FROM "tablex" WHERE "Date" BETWEEN
'2004-06-28'::date AND '2004-07-04'::date AND "Time" BETWEEN '00:00:00'::time AND
'18:01:00'::time;
Unique (cost=305669.92..306119.43 rows=89 width=8)
-> Sort (cost=305669.92..305894.67 rows=89903 width=8)
Sort Key: "number"
-> Index Scan using "DateTimeIndex" on "tablex"
(cost=0.00..298272.66 rows=89903 width=8)
Index Cond: (("Date" >= '2004-06-28'::date) AND
("Date" <= '2004-07-04'::date) AND ("Time" >= '00:00:00'::time without time zone) AND
("Time" <= '18:01:00'::time without time zone))
temp=> EXPLAIN SELECT DISTINCT "number" FROM "tablex" WHERE "Date" BETWEEN
'2004-06-28'::date AND '2004-07-04'::date AND "Time" BETWEEN '00:00:00'::time AND
'19:01:00'::time;
Unique (cost=315252.77..315742.27 rows=97 width=8)
-> Sort (cost=315252.77..315497.52 rows=97900 width=8)
Sort Key: "number"
-> Seq Scan on "tablex" (cost=0.00..307137.34 rows=97900
width=8)
Filter: (("Date" >= '2004-06-28'::date) AND ("Date" <=
'2004-07-04'::date) AND ("Time" >= '00:00:00'::time without time zone) AND ("Time" <=
'19:01:00'::time without time zone))
Basically, the difference is in upper "Time" value (as you can see, it's
18:01:00 in the first query and 19:01:00 in the other one).
The question is - why does it use index in first case and
it tries to do full sequential scan when the upper "Time" value
is different?
DateTimeIndex was created on both columns (Date/Time):
CREATE INDEX "DateTimeIndex" ON "tablex" USING btree ("Date", "Time");
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