pgsqlPostgres automatically creates a unique index to assure data integrity
(see CREATE INDEX statement).
The online docs at
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html state the
following:
" Postgres automatically creates a unique index to assure data integrity
(see CREATE INDEX statement). " ... when PRIMARY KEY is specified within a
CREATE TABLE statement.
My questions:
1) Are these indexes at all visible to a tool like PGAdmin? How are they
named?
2) If FORIGN KEY constraints were present on tables, I assume a lookup is
done at time of INSERT to ensure the referenced value can be found. Would
such a lookup and the index used be seen in the EXPLAIN or EXPLAIN VERBOSE
output of an INSERT?
For the record:
OS is RedHat Linux 2.2.19 #8 SMP Fri Sep 21 10:04:24 CDT
Postgres is PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
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