I wonder if is useless to set some indexes for columns contained in a
multifield primary key.
Suppose by example that one have a table1 with a primary key over three
field (a, b, c):
ALTER TABLE public.table1 ADD CONSTRAINT table1_pkey PRIMARY KEY(a, b, c);
are the indexes over (a) and (a, b) redundant (and so useless)?
I.e. with other words the question is, if I have a primary key set for
the a, b, c fields the queries
SELECT 1 from table1 where a='a value'
and
SELECT 1 from table1 where a='a value' AND b='another value'
use the implicit index created by the primary key or not?
Thank you in advance for any advice.
ciao, Michele
p.s. I know, I'll have to begin to use the explain command ...
I promise I'll do it ;-)