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From	James Cooper
Subject	indexing
Date	February 24, 2003 23:33:38
Msg-id	00cb01c2dc55$85b3d000$c900a8c0@jax Whole thread Raw
List	pgsql-sql

Hi all,

I've been doing a little reading on indexing in prelude to indexing my db.

I have the following to ask:

if I had three tables for a many to many relationship say A, B, AND C

B being the lookup. B being a huge 50k rows plus column and made just two forigen keys(b.a_id,b.c_id).

is it best to create two non-unique indexes or one unique index on both fields?

Please advise

I also attempted creating an index on a table i have called person on person_id and

ran

Explain

select person_id from person where person_id < n

but saw no results of my created index being used - am i doing something incorrectly

Pps

When indexing if searching tables is more important than concurrency - which type of index is best?

From: Josh Berkus
Date: 24 February 2003, 23:22:37
Subject: Re: Denormalizing during select

From: Bob Smith
Date: 25 February 2003, 00:57:50
Subject: Problem with deferred referential integrity checks