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From LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman
Subject searching using indexes 8.3
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Msg-id 3D53CC73-3BEA-483E-A396-3EFE7293A29D@nasa.gov
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Responses Re: searching using indexes 8.3  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Re: searching using indexes 8.3  (Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>)
Re: searching using indexes 8.3  (Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl>)
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Hi,
When I do a search such as:

 EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM itemsbyauthor;
                                                    QUERY PLAN                                                     
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on itemsbyauthor  (cost=0.00..971.34 rows=53634 width=34) (actual time=0.029..25.831 rows=53634 loops=1)
 Total runtime: 34.851 ms
(2 rows)


I have an index for the table, but it is not being utilized.  Why is this?  How do I get the index to be used?


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