Re: faster search

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:45:05PM -0400, Clark Slater wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> Would someone please enlighten me as
> to why I'm not seeing a faster execution
> time on the simple scenario below?

Because you need to extract a huge number of rows via a seqscan, sort
them and then throw them away, I think.

> explain analyze select * from test where productlistid=3 and typeid=9 
> order by partnumber limit 15;

Create an index on (productlistid, typeid, partnumber) then

  select * from test where productlistid=3 and typeid=9
   order by productlistid, typeid, partnumber LIMIT 15;

?

Cheers,
  Steve