Re: Index not used past a certain threshold
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: nishad@ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-30T04:08:13Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Nishad Prakash <prakashn@uci.edu> writes: > An index on a certain table is not being used if a column referenced in > the query has more than a certain number of rows for a given value. This is not a bug; it's intended and correct behavior. You may have an issue that the crossover point isn't very well tuned for your environment. If so, the answer is to fool with the optimizer cost parameters. See the plgsql-performance archives... regards, tom lane