On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Ron Snyder wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephan Szabo [mailto:sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com]
> > > Limit (cost=0.00..833.71 rows=15 width=426)
> > > -> Seq Scan on builds (cost=0.00..123873.38 rows=2229 width=426)
> > >
> > > EXPLAIN
> >
> > What's the explain for limit 14? And what if you set
> > enable_seqscan=off?
>
> The explain for limit 14 was the same (except that rows=14). I know I can
> disable seqscan in the .conf file-- is there a way that I can turn that off
> in the psql client? (It's a production database and they (the users) have
> about 300 client connections that don't handle disconnections very well.)
set enable_seqscan=off;
should do it.
> > Some of these indices seem obvious others I'm not sure what
> > they're supposed to cover.
> >
>
> I agree, unfortunately I don't have a lot of information about the indices.
What does pg_indexes show for them (it'll get back a human readable index
statement).