Prasanth <dbadmin@nqadmin.com> writes:
> code data type is int2.
Ah-hah. So "where code > 2::int2" should work noticeably better for
you. Or you could do "where code > '2'" to avoid hard-wiring the data
type knowledge into your queries. Or just change it to int4 ;-)
Or update to 8.0.
regards, tom lane