alt Hacker News> use set seqscan = off when testing your query plans esp when tables are empty or nearly so so you can see if indexes will be used when seq scans become less cheap
How well does this work for you? I thought if you have _any_ index, Postgres will use it if you disabled sequential scans. Diabling sequential scans won't tell if you if you have the right index
The seqscan option being a binary on/off is a bit of a misnomer; what it actually does is set the cost associated with a seqscan to be astronomically high so that other options will be preferred over it. An index on age when you're looking up by name won't be used whether or not seqscan is enabled.