Re: Shorthand for foreign key indices

From: "John D(dot) Burger" <john(at)mitre(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Shorthand for foreign key indices
Date: 2005-05-09 13:04:49
Message-ID: 0aeca0af83faf7139d447c0996bd9428@mitre.org
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> I know that it was decided a fair few releases ago to stop creating an
> implicit index for each foreign key,

By the way, I presume foreign key indices are used to check for
referential integrity on insert. Can the query planner also use then
somehow?

Thanks.

- John D. Burger
MITRE

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