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From: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
To: George Pavlov <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: index vs. seq scan choice?
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:01:51 -0700
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George Pavlov wrote:
>> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> "George Pavlov" <[email protected]> writes:

> to 977ms! If I go the other way and SET STATISTICS 1 (or 0) I can bring
> down the list to one entry (setting to 0 seems equivalent and still
> keeps the one most common entry!?) and I will get the Index scan for all
> states except for that one most common state. But, of course, I don't
> want to undermine the whole stats mechanism, I just want the system to
> use the index that is so helpful and brings runtimes down by a factor of
> 4-8! What am I missing here?

In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set 
enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on;

??

Joshua D. Drake


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