Re: SQL Programming Question - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:07 PM,  <tony@exquisiteimages.com> wrote:
> Using PostgreSQL I can't open a table and do seeks against an index. I
> could do a select against the database and see if 0 records are returned,
> but that seems to take more time than doing a seek on an index. Is there a
> more SQL friendly way of handling this task?

I come a foxpro background too, and I can tell you for sure postgres
indexes should give you similar performance to what you're used to.
Do you have an index on the table?

merlin