Re: Index/Foreign Key Question

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
Cc: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Index/Foreign Key Question
Date: 2003-10-12 19:39:25
Message-ID: 1065987564.15342.2.camel@fuji.krosing.net
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Andrew Sullivan kirjutas P, 12.10.2003 kell 22:28:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:01:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Does PostgreSQL only pick one index per table on the select statements?
> >
> > That's it's preference.
>
> As far as I know, that's all it can do. Do you know something
> different?

Tom has mentioned the possibility of using bitmaps as a an intermadiate
step, this would make star joins much faster as we could AND all index
info and actually examine onlu tuples that mach all indexes.

None of it is done by now, AFAIK.

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Hannu

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