Re: Creating index does not make any change in query plan.

Hi Shridhar,
    Its 100,000 records.

        Thanks a lot. When I do a select as explained by you I can able to
see the difference between Query plan for indexed and non indexed columns.

        Here an integer used as a string. Why when it selected as a
integer, the query plan doesn't do a index scan, but when selected as a string,
 the query planner uses index scan. What could be the possible reason?

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> On 17 Feb 2003 at 14:02, Deepa wrote:
> >     After doing Vacuum analyzing only I started doing the test. The
> > table also had nearly 1 lakh record. Then what could be the possible
> > reason.
>
> 1 lakh == 100,000 records, just to make things clear..
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:06:26PM +0530, Deepa wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >     When I do explain on 'activealarms' table while selecting
> > > > a row with primary key (AFAIK while creating primary key, an index will be
> > > > created on that column), the following result occurs.
> > > >
> > > > EXPLAIN SELECT * from activealarms where recordid = 2;
> > > > NOTICE:  QUERY PLAN:
> > > >
> > > > Seq Scan on activealarms  (cost=0.00..7122.86 rows=1 width=189)
> > > >
> > > > EXPLAIN
> > > >
> > > > Here 'recordid' is the primary key whose datatype is bigint.
> > >
> > > Out of curiosity, what happens with:
> > >
> > > EXPLAIN SELECT * from activealarms where recordid = '2';
>
> Did you try this or explicitly casting this '2' to smallint/bigint?
>
> Bye
>  Shridhar
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