Re: Performance Issues - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Performance Issues
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Msg-id 20030908131319.GB14906@wolff.to
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In response to Performance Issues  ("Ravi T Ramachandra" <ravi.ramachandra@wipro.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:43:42 +0530,
  Ravi T Ramachandra <ravi.ramachandra@wipro.com> wrote:
>
> SELECT * FROM TABLE A WHERE COL1 = 1 AND COL2 = 'ABC'.
>
> We have created index definition as follows
>
> CREATE INDEX IDX ON A(COL1, COL2);
>
> Explain on the above statement shows it is sequential scan.   The
> process size for the postmaster shows as 4MB (is this normal ?)

While Nathan's advice may be useful for you, it probably isn't causing the
problem you are seeing. Your problem is most likely that COL isn't
an INTEGER (aka INT or INT4). Try using single quotes around '1'.

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