Re: Optimizer bug??

Ismail Kizir wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> 1 .... EXPLAIN SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM articletbl WHERE
>       ((mydate BETWEEN '2004-04-24' AND '2004-05-24' )
> )
> 
> 2 .... EXPLAIN SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM articletbl WHERE
>       ((mydate = '2004-04-24')
> )
> 
> (I ran VACUUM ANALYZE before running those)
> 
> mydate is an indexed date column.
> The optimizer optimizes the second query but, it doesn't optimize the first
> one and decides to make a "sequential scan".
> Is this a bug?
> Or may someone explain me the reason?

give us the result of these queries:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM articletbl;

SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM articletbl WHERE
mydate BETWEEN '2004-04-24' AND '2004-05-24';

SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM articletbl WHERE
mydate = '2004-04-24';



Regards
Gaetano Mendola