On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Rosser Schwarz wrote:
In general, it's best to let the planner make the appropriate choice
without any artificial constraints.
As someone suggested ran with Explain analyze.
With seqscan_off was better.
Ran a vacuum analyze this afternoon so the stats were up to date.
Although
while you weren't looking, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Is there any disadvantage of having the enable_seqscan off?
Plenty.
The planner will choose whichever plan looks "cheapest", based on the
information it has available (table size, statistics, &c). If a
sequential scan looks cheaper, and in you
Is there a tutorial or reference to the different terms that appear on the
explain output?
Items such as "Nested Loop", "Hash"..
Also is there a way to easily tell which of two explains is "worse".
Example I am running a query with "set enable_seqscan to off;" and i see
the explain now shows in
