Re: sequential scan unduly favored over text search gin index

Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a tsvector column docvector and a gin index on it
> docmeta1_docvector_idx
>
> I have a simple query "select * from docmeta1 where docvector @@
> plainto_tsquery('english', 'free');"
>
> I find that the planner chooses a sequential scan of the table
> even when the index performs orders of magnitude.

Did you ANALYZE the table after loading the data and building the
index?

-Kevin