Sebastian,
> Whe are running PostgreSQL 8.2.0 on amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2, compiled
> by GCC cc (GCC) 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305. The query only uses the index
> if we have a "limit n":
Um, why are you running an unpatched version of 8.2? You should be runing
8.2.4.
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco