Does not use index on query using "field is null"?

I have a query that looks like this...:

select * from table where field is null

And when I run explain, it tells me that it uses seq scan... Is this because pg thinks that seq scan is as fast as using indexes or because using index on "is null" queries does
not work?

Regards,

BTJ

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