Re: [PERFORM] getting an index to work with partial indices ...

2005-08-29 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But, ti will if I try 'priority = -2' ... what is teh threshhold for using > the index? obviously 10% of the records is too high ... Depends on a lot of factors, but usually somewhere between 1% and 10%. (The new bitmap index scan code in 8.1 shou

[PERFORM] getting an index to work with partial indices ...

2005-08-29 Thread Marc G. Fournier
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