Re: index not used for boolean - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Greg Johnson
Subject Re: index not used for boolean
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Msg-id 1083681101.24739.21.camel@watto.interprose.net
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In response to index not used for boolean  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
Responses Re: index not used for boolean  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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I just ran into this yesterday also. I was trying
select * from foo where expired IS TRUE
and the index was not used, but when I switched it to expired = true it worked... Very frustrating bug.. wasted about 3 hours planning and analyzing the simple query.

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 00:04, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
Hi all,
is it normal that in a select like:

select * from foo where expired;

the index on expired is not used?

If I rewrite that query:

select * from foo where expired = true;

then the index is used!

I'm using postrgres 7.4.2


Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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