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From Amir Zicherman
Subject indexed column but queries still slow
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Msg-id 27a5b7d104081714064cc9cd0c@mail.gmail.com
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hi,

i have a btree index on col1 in table1.  The column has either values
1,2,3, or 4.  4 does not appear that much in the table (only 5 times).
 there are about 20 million rows in the table.  when i do a "select *
from table1 where col1=4" it takes very long time to get back to me
(around 4 minutes).  why is it taking so long if i have an index on
it?  I also tried this with a hash index and it was still slow.

thanx, amir

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