Re: why we do not create indexes on master

Valerii Valeev <valerii(dot)valeev(at)mail(dot)ru> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> can anyone please explain, why we do not create indexes on master?
> In my case master / child design blindly follows partitioning guide https://
> www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/ddl-partitioning.html.
> My collaborator was unhappy with performance of queries over master table with
> filtering by one of fields
>
> SELECT * FROM “master" WHERE “field" BETWEEN x AND y
>
> (there are indexes for “field” on child tables).
> He has created index on master once and found that the query returns 100x
> faster.

please show us explain analyse with/without index on master.

Regards, Andreas Kretschmer
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