Re: Strange plan in pg 8.1.0

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:26:09PM +0100, Mattias Kregert wrote:
> On the left side it is text, and on the right side it is varchar(10).
> Casting left side to varchar(10) does not help, in fact it makes things
> even worse: The cast to ::text vanishes in a puff of logic, but the plan
> gets bigger and even slower (20-25 seconds).

Casting definitely won't help it any; it was more a question of having the
types in the _tables_ be the same.

Anyhow, this might be a red herring; others might have something more
intelligent to say in this matter.

By the way, does it use an index scan if you turn off sequential scans
(set enable_seqscan = false)?

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