What kind of index should I use ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gabriel Fernandez
Subject What kind of index should I use ?
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Msg-id 3B050038.4B8340E7@unica.edu
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Responses Re: What kind of index should I use ?  (Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.Helsinki.FI>)
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Hi,

I have a table with a lot of fields and I would want to obtain a quicker
query response.

The main characteristics are:

The table is NOT often updated, I mean INSERT and UPDATE are sporadic
sentences, but SELECT sentences are often executed.

The most used query is something like

select distinct field1 from my_table where field1 is not null and field2
like '...'

Should I use a BTREE index or would be better to use a HASH or RTREE ?

Thanks,

Gabi :-)


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