| From: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Beth Gatewood" <beth(at)vizxlabs(dot)com>, <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: make a unique index for foreign keys? |
| Date: | 2002-06-14 02:24:05 |
| Message-ID: | GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOCEMBCCAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au |
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> Chris/ Josh-
>
> OK-response to Chris below. Synopsis here....simply by creating a foreign
> key will not create an index. On large tables I SHOULD put a non-unique
> index on the foreign key (right?)
For large tables, I guess you may as well. You can be more scientific about
it if you you unhash this in your postgresql.conf:
stats_command_string = true
stats_row_level = true
stats_block_level = true
Then you can just use the pg_stat views to see how many sequential scans are
being run over your tables and how expensive they are, etc.
Chris
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