On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:20 -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > rangetest@localhost-> explain analyze select * from some_data where > '[2010-01-01,2010-02-01)'::daterange @> whensit; > QUERY PLAN > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Seq Scan on some_data (cost=0.00..634.00 rows=1 width=8) (actual > time=1.045..111.739 rows=390 loops=1) > Filter: ('[ 2010-01-01, 2010-02-01 )'::daterange @> whensit) > Total runtime: 111.780 ms > (3 rows) > > This, alas, reverts to a seq scan on the table, rather than restricting > itself to the tuples of interest. > > I realize that, after a fashion, I'm using this backwards. But when I'm > doing temporal stuff, that tends to be the pattern:
Yes. The index is a btree index on a normal column, so range types can't exactly help with that directly -- except maybe as a rewrite like you say. One thing you might try is a functional index on (range(whensit)) and then do: where '...' @> range(whensit). Does that work for you? Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers