On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 18:44:00 +0100,
"Együd Csaba (Freemail)" <csegyud@freemail.hu> wrote:
> But why? I thought the planner is for choose the quicker way to the target
> point. If there is an index which is probably would speed up the query then
> why does the planner ignore that?
Because doing an index scan is slower if you are retrieving a significant
(very roughly 5%) fraction of a table.