Re: Yet again on indices... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jean-Paul ARGUDO
Subject Re: Yet again on indices...
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Msg-id 20020227155900.A27233@singer.ird.idealx.com
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In response to Yet again on indices...  (Jean-Paul ARGUDO <jean-paul.argudo@idealx.com>)
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> > postgresql.conf : enable_seqscan = false
> You could just do 
> set enable_seqscan to 'off'
> in sql

thanks for the tip :-)
> > => Uh? seq scan'cost is lower than index scan??  => mailto hackers
> It often is. Really.
> > What's your opinion? 
> What are the real performance numbers ?

Finally, testing and testing again shows the choice of table scan is faster than
index scan on this 26K tuples table. really impresive.
I posted another mail about Oracle vs PG results in a comparative survey I'm
currently working on for 1 month. Please read it, I feel a bit disapointed with
Oracle's 1200 tps..

Thanks for your support Hannu!

-- 
Jean-Paul ARGUDO



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