>Please post your PostgreSQL version, and the actual explain output of
>both queries.
EXPLAIN SELECT cdate FROM sometable WHERE cdate = current_date;
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
Seq Scan on sometable (cost=0.00..332.70 rows=71 width=186)
EXPLAIN SELECT cdate FROM sometable WHERE cdate = '02/14/2002';
NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
Index Scan using sometable_cdate on sometable (cost=0.00..66.64 rows=71 width=186)
My postgres version is 7.1.3
Again, thanks for any help
Matthew Price
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