Re: index not used

If id is PK, the query shoudl return 1 row only...
--- Enrico Weigelt  wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> I'm doing a simple lookup in a small table by an
> unique id, and I'm
> wondering, why explains tells me seqscan is used
> instead the key.
> 
> The table looks like:
> 
>     id	bigint		primary key,
>     a	varchar,
>     b	varchar,
>     c 	varchar
>     
> and I'm quering: select * from foo where id = 2;
> 
> I've got only 15 records in this table, but I wanna
> have it as 
> fast as possible since its used (as a map between
> IDs and names) 
> for larger queries.
> 
> 
> thx
> -- 
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