On 17 Feb 2003 at 14:02, Deepa wrote:
> After doing Vacuum analyzing only I started doing the test. The
> table also had nearly 1 lakh record. Then what could be the possible
> reason.
1 lakh == 100,000 records, just to make things clear..
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:06:26PM +0530, Deepa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > When I do explain on 'activealarms' table while selecting
> > > a row with primary key (AFAIK while creating primary key, an index will be
> > > created on that column), the following result occurs.
> > >
> > > EXPLAIN SELECT * from activealarms where recordid = 2;
> > > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
> > >
> > > Seq Scan on activealarms (cost=0.00..7122.86 rows=1 width=189)
> > >
> > > EXPLAIN
> > >
> > > Here 'recordid' is the primary key whose datatype is bigint.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, what happens with:
> >
> > EXPLAIN SELECT * from activealarms where recordid = '2';
Did you try this or explicitly casting this '2' to smallint/bigint?
Bye
Shridhar
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