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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:07:29 -0800
From: "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@ultimeth.com>
Organization: UltiMeth Systems
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To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Optimizing No matching record Queries
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On 2008-02-12 13:35, Pallav Kalva wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ...
> Table Definitions
> ============
>
> \d listing.listingstatus
>                                             Table "listing.listingstatus"
>     Column      |            Type             
> |                               Modifiers
> -----------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>
> listingstatusid | integer                     | not null default 
> nextval(('listing.listingstatusseq'::text)::regclass)
> shortname       | text                        |
> longname        | text                        |
> _entrydate      | timestamp without time zone | default 
> ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) without time zone
> Indexes:
>    "pk_listingstatus_listingstatusid" PRIMARY KEY, btree 
> (listingstatusid), tablespace "indexdata"
>
Since you are searching by "shortname", trying adding an index on that.  
Although with that tiny a table, it might not matter.

The questions are:

1. Why in the planner scanning the entire idx_listing_entrydate, when 
I'd think it should be scanning the entire 
pk_listingstatus_listingstatusid ?
2. Why is "Index Scan using pk_listingstatus_listingstatusid on 
listingstatus listingsta1_  (cost=0.00..0.27 rows=1 width=4) (never 
executed)" ?

Note:  I'm new at this as well, and jumped in to learn as well as to help.

-- Dean

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