Re: Query planning around one key of a multi-column index

From: Craig James <cjames(at)emolecules(dot)com>
To: Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Query planning around one key of a multi-column index
Date: 2019-12-19 03:02:45
Message-ID: CAFwQ8reu3kbbREr2M2i-7o7C-UdTOpMybRyMzbkcCwjhmiyMYQ@mail.gmail.com
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Google is your friend:
http://www.postgresqltutorial.com/postgresql-indexes/postgresql-multicolumn-indexes/

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:43 PM Wells Oliver <wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I've been using PG now for so many years and I don't have a solid concrete
> answer on this in my head, and I feel like I should: if I have a table with
> a multi-column index and I query on one of those columns (or some subset of
> those columns), will it use that index?
>
> Is there more reading on this topic? I've always felt it's a little more
> complicated but I'm not quite sure.
>
> --
> Wells Oliver
> wells(dot)oliver(at)gmail(dot)com <wellsoliver(at)gmail(dot)com>
>

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