indexes on primary and foreign keys - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Burak Seydioglu
Subject indexes on primary and foreign keys
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I do a load of sql joins using primary and foreign keys. What i would like to know if PostgreSQL creates indexes on these columns automatically (in addition to using them to maintain referential integrity) or do I have to create an index manually on these columns as indicated below?

CREATE TABLE cities (
city_id integer primary key,
city_name varchar(50)
);

CREATE INDEX city_id_index ON cities(city_id);

Thanks for any insight.

Burak

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