indexes with OR clauses is slow ?

Hello all,

While testing Index scan,I found the following phonomenon.

SELECT id from xxxxxx
where id=10 or id=11;

is very fast.

But
SELECT id from xxxxxx
where (id>=10 and id<=10)
or (id>=11 and id<=11);

is very slow.
Why ?

The EXPLAIN(not verbose) output of both SQL are same
except cost and size.

NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:

Index Scan using xxxxxx_pkey, xxxxxx_pkey on xxxxxx
(cost=1136.17 size=197 width=4)

It seems that (id>=..) is included in indexqual but (id<=.. )
is not.

Thanks.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp