Re: The planner chooses seqscan+sort when there is an index on the sort column - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: The planner chooses seqscan+sort when there is an index on the sort column
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Msg-id 20060503155432.GA18128@KanotixBox
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In response to The planner chooses seqscan+sort when there is an index on the sort column  (Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>)
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Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com> schrieb:
> select * from table order by col_1;

Without a WHERE you get the whole table.

A Index-Scan is, in this case, expensive.


HTH, Andreas
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