Re: Seq scan

Stephan Szabo wrote:

>On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Stephan Szabo wrote:
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>>On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Diogo Biazus wrote:
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>>>Hi everybody.
>>>Im trying to execute a simple UPDATE query on a table with 450000 rows
>>>using an index in the where clause.
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>>>Example:
>>>UPDATE table SET field = null WHERE field = 12345
>>>( NOTICE: Field has an index )
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>>If field is int8, you'll need to either quote the number or
>>cast it to int8 (either ::int8 or cast(12345 as int8) should work).
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>(Slow today) The same is true for int2 (which is despite my braindamage
>today large enough to hold 12345) except that you cast to int2.
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Yes, the field is int8 and now its working fine (with the quotes),
thanks for the help.

Diogo Biazus