Re: uh-oh - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Philip Hallstrom
Subject Re: uh-oh
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Msg-id 20060611172745.K95440@bravo.pjkh.com
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In response to uh-oh  (Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>)
Responses Re: uh-oh
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> I think I screwed up.
>
> I was running something in the background to update a table based on the jobs
> output (once every 1-10 seconds) and while that was running I created an
> index on the same table.
>
> Now that index is not used according to explain plans.
> It does show up when I type '\di'
> But I can't DROP INDEX.
>
> I think I'm in some trouble but I don't know how much.

Have you vacuum analyzed that table?  Maybe the statistics still think a
table scan is the best option?

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