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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: George Pavlov <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: index vs. seq scan choice?
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:33:48 -0400
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"George Pavlov" <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[email protected]]
>> In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set
>> enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on;

> 1. these cases are not that rare (to me);

It strikes me that you probably need to adjust the planner cost
parameters to reflect reality on your system.  Usually dropping
random_page_cost is the way to bias the thing more in favor of
index scans.

			regards, tom lane



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