"Paul C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed, the cost to look up a single string in the st_fti > table is way high: > select * from st_fti where string ~ '^kepler'; > costs 36703.40, AND its doing a Seq Scan on st_fti, even though an index > exists. Have you done a VACUUM ANALYZE on st_fti? Are you running the database in plain C locale? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly