Radhika S wrote: > I am curious as to why this occurs. Why does an = change the query plan so > drastically? > > When my query is: > Select count(*) from View_A WHERE tradedate = '20070801'; > The query plan is as below: > ... > But when my query is: > Select count(*) from View_A WHERE tradedate BETWEEN '20070801' and > '20070901'; > The query plan is: > ...
In short, the planner estimates that "tradedate BETWEEN '20070801' and '20070901'" matches more rows than "tradatedate = '20070801'" -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
