select query takes 13 seconds to run with index

From: mark <markkicks(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: select query takes 13 seconds to run with index
Date: 2008-05-26 22:49:35
Message-ID: 82fa9e310805261549m2362fbe8sbf18789938fee833@mail.gmail.com
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Hi, is there anyway this can be made faster? id is the primary key,
and there is an index on uid..

thanks

EXPLAIN ANALYZE select * from pokes where uid = 578439028 order by id
DESC limit 6;
QUERY PLAN
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=0.00..9329.02 rows=6 width=135) (actual
time=13612.247..13612.247 rows=0 loops=1)
-> Index Scan Backward using pokes_pkey on pokes
(cost=0.00..5182270.69 rows=3333 width=135) (actual
time=13612.245..13612.245 rows=0 loops=1)
Filter: (uid = 578439028)
Total runtime: 13612.369 ms
(4 rows)

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