Re: Interpreting statistics collector output

On Aug 8, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Decibel! wrote:
> Something else I like to look at is pg_stat_all_tables seq_scan and
> seq_tup_read. If seq_scan is a large number and seq_tup_read/
> seq_scan is
> also large, that indicates that you could use an index on that table.

If seq_tup_read / seq_scan is large relative to the number of rows in
the table, wouldn't that imply that those sequential scans are often
returning most of the rows in the table?  In that case, would an
index help much or is a sequential scan the expected result?

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