Re: Query composite index range in an efficient way

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Havasvölgyi Ottó <havasvolgyi(dot)otto(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Query composite index range in an efficient way
Date: 2009-02-17 15:53:39
Message-ID: 3289.1234886019@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> Havasvlgyi Ott <havasvolgyi(dot)otto(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I also tried Row constructors with a Between expression, but in this case
>> Postgres handled the elements of the row independently, and this led to
>> false query result.

> What version of Postgres is this? row constructors were fixed a long time ago
> to not do that and the main benefit of that was precisely that this type of
> expression could use a multi-column index effectively.

That depends on whether you think 8.2 is "a long time ago" ;-). But
yeah, row comparisons in a modern Postgres version are the way to handle
this.

regards, tom lane

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