Re: sequential scan unduly favored over text search gin index - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Sushant Sinha
Subject Re: sequential scan unduly favored over text search gin index
Date
Msg-id 1308585840.2488.13.camel@dragflick
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In response to Re: sequential scan unduly favored over text search gin index  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
Responses Re: sequential scan unduly favored over text search gin index
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On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:58 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a tsvector column docvector and a gin index on it
> > docmeta1_docvector_idx
> >
> > I have a simple query "select * from docmeta1 where docvector @@
> > plainto_tsquery('english', 'free');"
> >
> > I find that the planner chooses a sequential scan of the table
> > even when the index performs orders of magnitude.
>
> Did you ANALYZE the table after loading the data and building the
> index?
Yes and I mentioned that the row estimates are correct, which indicate
that the problem is somewhere else.

-Sushant.

> -Kevin



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