On Monday 10 March 2008, LARC/J.L.Shipman/jshipman 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>       When I do a search such as:
>
>   EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * FROM itemsbyauthor;
>                                                      QUERY PLAN
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------
>   Seq Scan on itemsbyauthor  (cost=0.00..971.34 rows=53634 width=34)
> (actual time=0.029..25.831 rows=53634 loops=1)
>   Total runtime: 34.851 ms
> (2 rows)
>
>
> I have an index for the table, but it is not being utilized.  Why is
> this?  How do I get the index to be used?
>

You asked for the whole table. How would an index help?


-- 
Alan

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