Re: RE: Re: Dissapearing indexes, what's that all about?

after a refresh database the explain yields:
index scan using xXxX (cost=0.00..8.14 rows=10 width=147)
after a vacuum + vacuum analyze the explain yields:
seq scan on acc xXxX Ä(cost=0.00..1.23 rows=1 width=147)

humm, seems you are right here... but why is it choosing a
index scan in the first place then?

> What are the costs associated with the EXPLAIN output?
Perhaps a sequential scan is *faster* then an index scan.
>
> Mike Mascari
> mascarm@mascari.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Daniel ?erud [SMTP:zilch@home.se]
> Sent:    Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:31 PM
> To:    pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject:    Re: Re: [GENERAL] Dissapearing indexes,
what's that all about?
>
>
>
> > >Hey people,
> > >have a very strange problem now...
> > >It's that when my database with the script i'm using a
> > >explain select * from acc where username='britta'
yields
> an
> > >index scan. Very nice. But after some time being up the
> > >same thing yields a SEQUENTIAL scan. What's happening
> > >folks? =) No more than update's select's and vacuums
has
> > >been invoked.
> >
> > Are you doing vacuum or vacuum analyze?  I believe only
> the 'vacuum analyze'
> > function cleans up the indexing statistics.
> >
> > len
> >
>
> Please look at this:
> I just ran an interesting little test here...
> watch this:
>
> <DROP DB><CREATE DB><RUN DB SCRIPT>
>
> explain select * from acc where username='britta';
>
> Index scan using acc_username_key on acc...
>
> VACUUM;
>
> explain select * from acc where username='britta';
>
> Seq Scan on acc
>
> <DROP DB><CREATE DB><RUN DB SCRIPT>
>
> explain select * from acc where username='britta';
>
> Index scan
>
> VACUUM ANALYZE
>
> explain select * from acc where username='britta';
>
> Seq scan
>
> What the wakk is goin on here people? =)
>
> version: PostgreSQL 7.0.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled
by
> gcc 2.95.2
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel Akerud
>
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