Re: TB-sized databases

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Pablo Alcaraz wrote:
> it would be nice to do something with selects so we can recover a rowset
> on huge tables using a criteria with indexes without fall running a full
> scan.

You mean: Be able to tell Postgres "Don't ever do a sequential scan of
this table. It's silly. I would rather the query failed than have to wait
for a sequential scan of the entire table."

Yes, that would be really useful, if you have huge tables in your
database.

Matthew

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