Re: bigint indices with inequalities?

On Tuesday March 18 2003 6:16, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ed L. wrote:
> > Can anyone help me understand why this query is not using an index? 
> > Schema, query, and explain output for 3 different attempts are below.
> >
...
> >                ->  Seq Scan on _dbm_pending_data pd  (cost=0.00..886.74
...
> >                            ->  Seq Scan on _dbm_pending p
> > (cost=0.00..832.93 rows=35876 width=46)
> >                                  Filter: (xid > 268010::bigint)
>
> It's estimating that the xid condition is not very selective (35876 of
> 36474).  If that's true an index scan is likely to be a loser against the
> sequence scan.

That makes perfect sense.  Turns out the literal was very near the minimum 
value.  Thanks.

Ed