Mike Mascari wrote:
>Tim McAuley wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a table which I have populated with over 5000 entries. There is a
>>combined index placed on two of the columns (both bigint). I am trying
>>a simple select (i.e. select id where col1 = 1 and col2 = 1) covering
>>these two columns and it keeps using a seq scan. Is this correct? I
>>would have thought that with this number of entries that an index scan
>>should be used.
>>
>>
>
>You must cast the 1 to a bigint:
>
>SELECT id WHERE col1 = 1::bigint AND col1 = 2::bigint
>
>This should probably be listed under FAQ 4.8, but it isn't.
>
>
That's it!
I had actually just come across that before reading this email. It gets
the explain back into shape anyway!
Thanks!
Tim
