[SOLVED] Re: Timestamp indicies not being used!

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First of all *thank* you very much to all that replied! :)

Sam's suggestion actually did the trick!

I created the multi-column index and the stalling went away. Yay!

Best regards,

Pedro Doria Meunier
GSM: +351 96 17 20 188
Skype: pdoriam

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net> writes:
>> Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
>>> Based on your query, I think you want a multi-column
>>> index---probably on (id,zulu_timestamp).
>>>
>>> The problem with just having an index on either column is that
>>> it's difficult to combine them and PG hence just thinks that it
>>> will be
>
>> Since 8.1 PG can do an bitmap index scan using both indexes...
>
> ... which produces an unordered result, so it's pretty useless for
> this problem. I concur with Sam's suggestion.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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