Re: Seqscan/Indexscan still a known issue? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Russell Smith
Subject Re: Seqscan/Indexscan still a known issue?
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Msg-id 45BB2CFA.50609@pws.com.au
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In response to Re: Seqscan/Indexscan still a known issue?  (Guido Neitzer <lists@event-s.net>)
Responses Re: Seqscan/Indexscan still a known issue?
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Guido Neitzer wrote:
> On 27.01.2007, at 00:35, Russell Smith wrote:
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>> Guess 1 would be that your primary key is int8, but can't be certain
>> that is what's causing the problem.
>
> Why could that be a problem?
Before 8.0, the planner would not choose an index scan if the types were
different int8_col = const, int8_col = 4.
4 in this example is cast to int4.  int8 != int4.  So the planner will
not choose an index scan.

Regards

Russell Smith
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