indexed column not working as fast as expected

From: Amir Zicherman <amir(dot)zicherman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: indexed column not working as fast as expected
Date: 2004-08-17 23:24:11
Message-ID: 27a5b7d1040817162437e2e6f@mail.gmail.com
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hi,

i have a btree index on col1 in table1. The column has either values
1,2,3, or 4. 4 does not appear that much in the table (only 5 times).
there are about 20 million rows in the table. when i do a "select *
from table1 where col1=4" it takes very long time to get back to me
(around 4 minutes). why is it taking so long if i have an index on
it? I also tried this with a hash index and it was still slow.

thanx, amir

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