Re: Why sequential scan when there's a supporting index? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 02:25, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> Btw, "SELECT tx_date, COUNT(*) FROM t_lane_tx GROUP BY tx_date;"
> also does a Seq Scan on t_lane_tx.  What's the best work-around
> for this query?

There is no work around for this one.  In some circumstances the indexes
in a PostgreSQL database will contain 'dirty' information, and so to get
the correct answer in these cases PostgreSQL has to go to the real
table.

For my personal view I'm OK with the current behaviour.  It has
tradeoffs, and this is one of the negatives, but although I find myself
doing this interactively quite often I only very rarely find myself
doing it inside an application.

Regards,
                    Andrew.
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