I have a table which I have populated with over 5000 entries. There is a combined index placed on two of the columns (both bigint). I am trying a simple select (i.e. select id where col1 = 1 and col2 = 1) covering these two columns and it keeps using a seq scan. Is this correct? I would have thought that with this number of entries that an index scan should be used.
I am testing this using postgresql 7.3.3 on windows 2000 using cygwin.
Doing "set enable_seqscan to off" does not change the results of the explain operation.
I also tried setting a single index on just one of the columns and running an appropriate search; it still uses a seq scan. At what stage will the planner normally start using an index scan?
Any hints appreciated.
Tim
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