Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns
Date: 2024-02-29 12:24:55
Message-ID: 3c7e0de87eedeb66a127394202db8f12af36c424.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 12:07 +0100, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> But I'm sure indexes on columns "not used at all in a statement" are eliminated early and easily/cheaply,
> w/o even getting into more complex consideration like statistics and co. Aren't they?

You may want a "SELECT count(*) FROM tab" to consider an index-only
scan on a small index, right? I'm not saying that it is a large
overhead, but if you actually have dozens of indexes, it can
make processing slower.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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