Re: sequence scan on PK - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: sequence scan on PK
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Msg-id 12303.1115570959@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: sequence scan on PK  (Jeroen van Iddekinge <iddekingej@lycos.com>)
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Jeroen van Iddekinge <iddekingej@lycos.com> writes:
>> You could tweak with several settings to get it to do an index scan
>> earlier, but these would probably break other queries. You don't need to
>> tune for 100 rows, morelike 100k or 100M.

> Which settings shoud I change for this?

I'd agree with John's response: if you change any settings based on just
this one test case, you're a fool.  But usually random_page_cost is the
best knob to twiddle if you wish to encourage indexscans.

            regards, tom lane

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