Thanks that worked, but why does that happen or maybe you could point to the proper thread so I read up on it.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alain Lavigne - Data Administrator - ZAQ Interactive Solutions E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 297 St-Paul, West - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - H2Y 2A5 Phone: 514-282-7073 ext: 371 - Fax: 514-282-8011 -----Original Message----- From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: July 16, 2002 14:52 To: Alain Lavigne Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SQL] Need help on a troublesome query plan On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Alain Lavigne wrote: > Index "bld_x1_tb_bus_fact" > Column | Type > -----------------+--------------- > party_id | bigint > bus_fact_typ_cd | character(10) > cont_id | bigint > btree > > With the following query on 50000 records: > > explain > SELECT bld_TB_BUS_FACT.BUS_FACT_ID AS id > FROM bld_TB_BUS_FACT > WHERE bld_TB_BUS_FACT.PARTY_ID=1320677 > AND bld_TB_BUS_FACT.BUS_FACT_TYP_CD='MSG_SENT' > AND bld_TB_BUS_FACT.CONT_ID=786448 > AND bld_TB_BUS_FACT.BUS_FACT_KYWRD ILIKE '%MT-ID=3407979%' > AND bld_TB_BUS_FACT.BUS_FACT_KYWRD ILIKE '%S-ID=1310723%' > limit 1; You'll need to either single quote or explicitly cast the constants you're comparing to the bigint columns. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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