Re: Autocommit, isolation level, and vacuum behavior

On Sep 13, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:

> On 2008-09-12 15:52, Jack Orenstein wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I misspoke. I have an index, but preferred doing a scan
>> without the index in this case.
>
> Why?
>
> The only reason I can think of is that you'd like to avoid disk
> seeking. But you get at most 1 row in 30 seconds, so disk latency
> (only several milliseconds) can be ignored.
>

Because other parts of our application consume results from the same
query at normal speed.

Jack