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From Sergey Konoplev
Subject Re: Seq Scan cost shown to be (cost=10000000000.00..10000000001.10)
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In response to Seq Scan cost shown to be (cost=10000000000.00..10000000001.10)  (Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
> I set enable_seqscan=off and also accidentally dropped the only index
[...]
>  Seq Scan on testdata  (cost=10000000000.00..10000000001.10 rows=2 width=71)
[...]
> Although, I suspect the (dropped index + enable_seqscan) causes this,
> is the cost shown in explain output some kind of default max or
> something like that for such abnormal cases?

When you set enable_xxx=off, it not actually disables the xxx
operation, it sets the start cost to the high value (10000000000).

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