On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:53:09PM +0100, Eric Cholet wrote:
> I should have mentionned I tried that, but it isn't being used:
>
> => \d dico_frs_motid_date
> Index "dico_frs_motid_date"
> Attribute | Type
> -----------+--------------------------
> motid | integer
> date | timestamp with time zone
> btree
>
> => explain select * from dico_frs where motid=4742 order by date desc limit
> 10;
> NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
>
> Limit (cost=0.00..17591.91 rows=10 width=16)
> -> Index Scan Backward using dico_frs_date on dico_frs
> (cost=0.00..20023641.63 rows=11382 width=16)
Well, it is doing the scan backwards, which is good. But it's not using the
index. If you drop dico_frs_date index, does it do it then?
Oh, and what version of postgres was this again?
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