Try as I might, I can't seem to get it to work ... table has >9million rows in it, I've created an index "using btree ( priority ) where priority < 0;", where the table distribution looks like:

 priority |  count
----------+---------
       -2 |  138435
       -1 |  943250
        1 |    3416
        9 | 1134171
          | 7276960
(5 rows)

And it still won't use the index:

# explain update table set priority = -3 where priority = -1;
QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on table  (cost=0.00..400735.90 rows=993939 width=278)
   Filter: (priority = -1)
(2 rows)

But, ti will if I try 'priority = -2' ... what is teh threshhold for using the index? obviously 10% of the records is too high ...

thanks ...

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