Re: index or not - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Jean-Yves F. Barbier
Subject Re: index or not
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Msg-id 20111212212347.08b559bf@anubis.defcon1
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In response to Re: index or not  (Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>)
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:26:06 +0100
Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net> wrote:

>
> As i said: use EXPLAIN. The answer of your question depends on a lot of
> details, i can't say if an seq-scan is cheaper or not. (for instance, if
> you have SSDs, a index-scan maybe is cheaper than an seq-scan ...)
>
> Create an Index, use explain, if it use a seq-scan you can drop the index.
>
> For such small tables it is hard to guess the plan...

Ok, I'll create indexes (no time to test right now), thanks.

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