select records from postgres where timestamp is in certain range

I have arrival column of type timestamp in table reservations ( I'm using postgres ). How would I select all dates within this year for example?

I know I could do something like this:

select * FROM reservations WHERE extract(year from arrival) = 2012;

But I've ran analyze and it looks like it require a sequence scan. Is there a better option?

P.S. 1 Hmm. both ways seem to require seq. scan. But the one by wildplasser produces results faster - why?

cmm=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE select * FROM reservations WHERE extract(year from arrival) = 2010;
                                                  QUERY PLAN                                                   
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on vrreservations  (cost=0.00..165.78 rows=14 width=4960) (actual time=0.213..4.509 rows=49 loops=1)
   Filter: (date_part('year'::text, arrival) = 2010::double precision)
 Total runtime: 5.615 ms
(3 rows)

cmm=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT * from reservations WHERE arrival > '2010-01-01 00:00:00' AND arrival < '2011-01-01 00:00:00';
                                                                  QUERY PLAN                                                                   
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Seq Scan on reservations  (cost=0.00..165.78 rows=51 width=4960) (actual time=0.126..2.491 rows=49 loops=1)
   Filter: ((arrival > '2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) AND (arrival < '2011-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone))
 Total runtime: 3.144 ms
(3 rows)

** P.S. 2 - After I have created index on arrival column second way got even faster - since it looks like query uses index. Mkey - I guess I'll stik with this one. **

                                                                       QUERY PLAN                                                                        
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Bitmap Heap Scan on reservations  (cost=4.77..101.27 rows=51 width=4960) (actual time=0.359..0.791 rows=49 loops=1)
   Recheck Cond: ((arrival > '2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) AND (arrival < '2011-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone))
   ->  Bitmap Index Scan on arrival_idx  (cost=0.00..4.76 rows=51 width=0) (actual time=0.177..0.177 rows=49 loops=1)
         Index Cond: ((arrival > '2010-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) AND (arrival < '2011-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone))
 Total runtime: 1.265 ms

SELECT * 
FROM reservations 
WHERE arrival >= '2012-01-01'
AND arrival < '2013-01-01'
   ;

BTW if the distribution of values indicates that an index scan will not be the worth (for example if all the values are in 2012), the optimiser could still choose a full table scan. YMMV. Explain is your friend.

Another option to make PostgreSQL use an index for your original query, is to create an index on the expression you are using:

create index arrival_year on reservations ( extract(year from arrival) );

That will open PostgreSQL with the possibility to use an index for

select * 
FROM reservations 
WHERE extract(year from arrival) = 2012;

Note that the expression in the index must be exactly the same expression as used in the where clause to make this work.

Search till the seconds for the timestamp column in postgress

select * from "TableName" e
    where timestamp >= '2020-08-08T13:00:00' and timestamp < '2020-08-08T17:00:00';