Re: SQL Programming Question

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: tony(at)exquisiteimages(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL Programming Question
Date: 2010-09-11 19:26:22
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On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:07 PM, <tony(at)exquisiteimages(dot)com> wrote:
> Using PostgreSQL I can't open a table and do seeks against an index. I
> could do a select against the database and see if 0 records are returned,
> but that seems to take more time than doing a seek on an index. Is there a
> more SQL friendly way of handling this task?

I come a foxpro background too, and I can tell you for sure postgres
indexes should give you similar performance to what you're used to.
Do you have an index on the table?

merlin

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