Re: PL/PgSQL Index Usage with Trigger Variables

I think I see what was happening. I was looking at the output of the
SELECT that is used for opening a cursor. Got it. Thanks for your help.
It's kind of a meta-select in the printed version of a plan if the
cursor being opened is a SELECT.

-tfo

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On Jan 19, 2005, at 3:36 AM, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:46:33AM -0600, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
>
>> Follow-up question: are indexes used in dynamically executed queries?
>>
>> Rather than SEQSCAN or INDEXSCAN in the DETAIL item, I see RESULT
>> followed by a large amount of unreadable (by me) output.
>
> Are you sure you're looking at the right DETAIL?  Adding some
> RAISE INFO or RAISE DEBUG statements can help you pinpoint which
> log output belongs to which part of the function.
>
> I just wrote a test function that used EXECUTE to do an UPDATE and
> a SELECT loop and saw INDEXSCAN in the relevant DETAIL sections.
>
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