On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Martin Sarsale wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 15:06, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > create function is_somethingable (ctype, dtype) returns boolean as
>
> Thanks, but I would prefer a simpler solution.
>
> I would like to know why this uses a seqscan instead of an index scan:
>
> create index t_idx on t((c+d));
> select * from t where c+d > 0;
As a geuss, since 7.4 and earlier have no statistics on the distribution
of c+d it has to guess about how likely that is to be true and is probably
overestimating. 8.0beta might handle this better.
