On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
This was not a bug report. I simply said that I had the same
problem where a large table should have been using an index and was not,
so I vacuumed the table, and it used the index.
Are you a developer? Did this really read as a bug report? Is
anyone out there creating largish tables, adding an index to them, and
having the index used without a vacuum? Is it really that much of a
problem?
# > I ran into this exact problem, and it was *very* significant on a
# > 15M row table I have. :) It didn't seem to want to use the index, even
# > freshly created, without a vacuum analyze.
#
# grrrr....
#
# FOR THE LAST TIME, THESE BUG REPORTS ARE PRETTY MUCH **USELESS**
# TO THE DEVELOPERS UNLESS YOU GIVE:
#
# THE TABLE STRUCTURE,
# THE QUERY, AND
# THE OUTPUT OF 'EXPLAIN'
#
# Just because someone is a database guru doesn't mean they are also
# clairvoyant. :)
#
# thanks,
# -Alfred
#
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