Re: test / live environment, major performance difference

Good day,

I have noticed that my server never uses indexing. No matter what I do.

As an example I took a table with about 650 rows, having a parentid
field with an index on parentid.

EXPLAIN ANALYZE
SELECT *
  FROM layertype
where parentid = 300;

On my laptop the explain analyze looks like this:

"Index Scan using fki_layertype_parentid on layertype  (cost=0.00..8.27
rows=1 width=109)"
"  Index Cond: (parentid = 300)"

and on the problem server:

"Seq Scan on layertype  (cost=0.00..20.39 rows=655 width=110)"
"  Filter: (parentid = 300)"

.........

I have dropped the index, recreated it, vacuumed the table, just about
everything I could think of, And there is just no way I can get the
query planner to use the index.

PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2
20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
POSTGIS="1.2.1" GEOS="3.0.0rc4-CAPI-1.3.3" PROJ="Rel. 4.5.0, 22 Oct
2006" USE_STATS