Re: Index not used in join.. (example included). - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Sorry. Maybe I should refrase my question.

I have two tables A and B.
Each table contains a non-unique indexed varchar column.

Table A contains around 500000 rows
table B contains around 4 million rows

for a given value of col there are typically 3 records in A and
20 records in B (give or take)

I want to do something like this:

select a.somecol from A left join B on B.col = A.col where A.date > '2001-01-01';

But this query runs for hours on an eight core server with 4G etc etc.
I configured PG to use 128Mb shared memory, but fiddling with that value
doesn't change much..

And I continuously see the planner choosing for seq scans.

I don't get it.

Ron

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