Re:

It contains 50000 records. I have to do vacuum analyze on the table after
having issued the "CREATE INDEX" to create the index?

Please, let me know...

Regards,
Denis

At 19.03 23/08/01, Doug McNaught wrote:
>Denis Gasparin <denis@edinet.it> writes:
>
> > Hi to all!
> >       I have created a table using the CREATE TABLE new_table
> > (col1,col2,col3) AS SELECT col1,col2,col3 FROM org_table.
> >
> >       I create an index on this table using the statement:
> > CREATE UNIQUE INDEX table_idx ON new_table (col1).
> >       Then i do a select as this:
> > SELECT * FROM new_table WHERE col1 = 'value'.
> >
> >       The problem is that when i do an explain this is the query plan:
> >
> > Seq Scan on new_table  (cost=0.00..1116.38 rows=500 width=44)>
> >
> > Can anyone explain me why it doesn't use the index I have created?
>
>How populated is the table?  If it's small, or if you haven't done
>VACUUM ANALYZE, the statistics may end up preferring a sequential
>scan.
>
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