Edoardo Ceccarelli <eddy@expot.it> writes:
> This is the query:
> select max(KA) from annuncio
>
> field KA is indexed and is int4,
>
> explaining gives:
> explain select max(KA) from annuncio;
> QUERY PLAN
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Aggregate (cost=21173.70..21173.70 rows=1 width=4)
> -> Seq Scan on annuncio (cost=0.00..20326.76 rows=338776 width=4)
> (2 rows)
>
>
> wasn't supposed to do an index scan? it takes about 1sec to get the result.
This is a known misfeature of max() in postgresql, see...
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2003-12/msg00283.php
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