Re: BRIN is missing in multicolumn indexes documentation

From: Petr Jediný <petr(dot)jediny(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Emre Hasegeli <emre(at)hasegeli(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BRIN is missing in multicolumn indexes documentation
Date: 2016-03-28 17:10:08
Message-ID: CAD=W4J_+xUiwb_z=097kfDWp_fkuufqWFAAMf+=EbxhN1r4kjw@mail.gmail.com
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Comments? This is my first patch to postgresql project, so comments
are very much welcomed.

PJ

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Petr Jediný <petr(dot)jediny(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Multicolumn BRIN is like GIN. Every column is indexed separately.
>>> The order of the columns doesn't matter.
>>
>> Right. You can use one index to cover all columns; the position of the
>> column in the index won't matter for a query that uses one column. The
>> only reason to have multiple BRIN indexes on a single table is to have
>> a different pages_per_range.
>
> Thanks for the information, I've attached the patch updated to v2.
>
>
> PJ

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