Re: How does Index Scan get used

From: Holger Marzen <holger(at)marzen(dot)de>
To: "Samuel J(dot) Sutjiono" <ssutjiono(at)wc-group(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How does Index Scan get used
Date: 2002-02-22 15:25:16
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0202221624390.20993-100000@bluebell.marzen.de
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-general

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Samuel J. Sutjiono wrote:

> I tried an Index Scan but I kept on getting Seq Scan. Do you know why ? What do I need to do to get my query to use index scan (I tried to turn it on by doing SET ENABLE_indexscan = on; but it didn't work)
>
> create table test (test_col text);
> create index test_index on test (test_col);
> insert into test values ('abc.xyz');
> insert into test values ('abcxyz');
> insert into test values ('abc/xyz');
>
> explain select * from test where test_col like 'abc/%';
>
> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
>
> Seq Scan on test (cost=0.00..22.50 rows=10 width=12)

Did you do a vacuum analyze after creating the index?

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-general by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message root 2002-02-22 15:25:33 Does iscachable work?
Previous Message root 2002-02-22 15:14:30 Does iscachable work?