Re: Lost indexes

From: Richard Poole <rp(at)guests(dot)deus(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lost indexes
Date: 2003-07-18 11:49:58
Message-ID: 20030718114958.GD1272@guests.deus.net
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:26:59AM -0300, Vilson farias wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been fighting against a very strange behaviour found in PostgreSQL
> 7.1.2 on a RedHat 6.2. I have a very simple table called site_site and I
> lost it's indexes everytime I run a vaccum. Do you know why this happens? Is
> there a way to get around or fix this kind of problem?I put a full sequence
> of steps I've used to make it happen.

The indexes are not lost; after you have done an ANALYZE, the system
knows that they won't speed up your queries, so it chooses sequential
scans instead. If you put a lot of data in the table and ANALYZE again,
you'll find that the indexes are used.

Richard

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