Re: I could not get postgres to utilizy indexes

Igor Artimenko wrote:

>Hi verybody!
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>I can't make use of indexes even I tried the same test by changing different settings in postgres.conf like geqo to
off/on& geqo related parameters, enable_seqscan off/on & so on. Result is the same.  
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>Here is test itself:
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>I've created simplest table test and executed the same statement "explain analyze select id from test where id =
50000;"Few times I added 100,000 records, applied vacuum full; and issued above explain command.  
>Postgres uses sequential scan instead of index one.
>Of cause Time to execute the same statement constantly grows. In my mind index should not allow time to grow so much.

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>Why Postgres does not utilizes primary unique index?
>What I'm missing? It continue growing even there are 1,200,000 records. It should at least start using index at some
point.
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Igor, you may want to run "vacuum analyze" and see if your results change.

Thomas