Re: Sequential scan faster than index

From: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Arthur Ramsey <arthur(dot)ramsey(at)code42(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sequential scan faster than index
Date: 2023-02-21 10:41:19
Message-ID: CAKoxK+5E_vtSi06yWDaFiH8w3HgQFU2YnAMBJq3cNO2j=RuqkA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:30 AM Arthur Ramsey <arthur(dot)ramsey(at)code42(dot)com> wrote:
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> I'm trying to figure out why a sequential scan is out performing. I've tried psql 13.7, psql14.6 and REINDEX. The REINDEX didn't help. This is on an RDS instance that's a db.m5.large (2 * vCPU, 8 GB memory) with 200 storage on io1 with 10000 provisioned IOPS. I restarted the RDS instance in between each test.
>

At glance, it seems there are very few rows to operate on:

-> Seq Scan on t_status_175000000_176000000 t_status_39
(cost=0.00..13.80 rows=380 width=14) (actual time=0.009..0.010 rows=0
loops=1)

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