Re: Timestamp-based indexing

Harmon S. Nine wrote:

> monitor=# explain analyze select * from "eventtable" where timestamp >
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP - INTERVAL '10 minutes';
>                                                         QUERY PLAN

Try

SELECT * FROM eventtable where timestamp BETWEEN  (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP -
INTERVAL '10 minutes') AND CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

This should will use a range off valid times.  What your query is doing
is looking for 10 minutes ago to an infinate future.  Statically
speaking that should encompass most of the table because you have an
infinate range.  No index will be used.  If you assign a range the
planner can fiqure out what you are looking for.

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