Re: build multiple indexes in single table pass?

From: Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: build multiple indexes in single table pass?
Date: 2008-04-07 18:18:50
Message-ID: B0686358-9152-4AAE-81AA-0D0FFE269900@decibel.org
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On Apr 1, 2008, at 10:03 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> The idea we were bouncing around went a step past that and
> considered this: if you have good statistics on a table, and you
> have a sample set of queries you want to execute against it, how
> would you use that information to plan what indexes should be
> created? Needing to be able to create multiple indexes at once
> efficiently was an implementation detail to pull that off.

Someone at EnterpriseDB (Pavan?) did work on that. I don't know what
the status of that effort is.
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Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
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