Re: disable seqscan

Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:31:04PM +0530, Nick Raj wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have build an index. When, i execute the query, it gives the result by
> > sequential scan, not by using my index.
>
> > For that, i have set enable_seqscan=off in postgresql.conf. But it still
> > going through sequential scan.
>
> It sounds like your index can't actually be used to satisfy your
> query. Without seeing the table definition, index definition, and
> query, however, it's pretty hard to give you a real answer.

... and the output produced by

explain analyse <insert your query>

Andreas
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