On more investigation I found that index scan is not used if the query have a function in it like lower() and an index exist for lower() column.
rgds Antony Paul On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 14:37:15 +0530, Antony Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am facing a strange problem when I run EXPLAIN against a table > having more than 100000 records. The query have lot of OR conditions > and when parts of the query is removed it is using index. To analyse > it I created a table with a single column, inserted 100000 > records(random number) in it created index and run a query which > returns 1 record which have no or condition and it was using index. I > added an OR conditon and is using sequential scan. I set the > enable_seqscan to off. I ran the tests again and is using index scan. > So which one I have to use. Is this any bug in Explain. > > rgds > Antony Paul. > ---------------------------(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