> You can prevent postgres from using the index on node by changing the reference in the WHERE clause to an expression,
likeso:
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> SELECT * FROM public.stat WHERE node||'' = '1010101010' AND
> ("date" <= '2008-06-30'::date AND "date" >= '2008-01-01'::date);
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> Perhaps this will lead the optimizer to choose the index on date. However, I have noticed reluctance in the postgres
optimizerto use multi-column indexes, presumably because the increased size of the indexed values lowers expectations
forperformance of the index.
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I think you are right about the multi-column usage.
When I use node||'' instead of node, it will do a seq scan.
Poul