Usually one of: leading column mismatch, function call on the indexed column, low selectivity, or stale stats. Run EXPLAIN ANALYZE and check if Postgres picks the index. If it's a seq scan on a 10M row table, your WHERE clause is fighting the index. Paste the query and the plan.

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