On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 18:44:00 +0100,
  "Együd Csaba (Freemail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But why? I thought the planner is for choose the quicker way to the target
> point. If there is an index which is probably would speed up the query then
> why does the planner ignore that? 

Because doing an index scan is slower if you are retrieving a significant
(very roughly 5%) fraction of a table.

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