Re: Queries not using Index

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Daryl Herzmann" <akrherz(at)iastate(dot)edu>, "Stephan Szabo" <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Queries not using Index
Date: 2002-07-24 01:47:18
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOCEEPCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> I inserted the data via 30 "COPY t2002_06 from stdin" (one per
> day) So it
> was grouped by station and then day for each insert. (My script dumped
> the data from each station for the day and then repeated for each station
> and then finally dumped the entire day into the DB. Are you saying that
> this process has tricked pgsql into not believing it needs to use an
> INDEX? Sorry for my ignorance here. I have done similar processes with
> PG7.1.2 and it seemed to use the INDEX.
>
> In fact, I just repeated the dumping scripts on a machine with 7.1.2 and
> the "explain select" reports to be using the Index Scan. Hmmmm

You _have_ actually run ANALYZE on the table, right?

Chris

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