Re: [JDBC] is a good practice to create an index on the - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Edoardo Ceccarelli
Subject Re: [JDBC] is a good practice to create an index on the
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Msg-id 408F679A.9030608@axa.it
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In response to Re: [JDBC] is a good practice to create an index on the  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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do you mean that, declaring an index serial, I'd never have to deal with
incrementing its primary key? good to know!
anyway  in this particular situation I don't need such accurate
behaviour: this table is filled up with a lot of data twice per week and
it's used only to answer queries.
I could drop it whenever I want :)

Thanks again,
eddy

Christopher Kings-Lynne ha scritto:

>> I am going to use them as primary key of the table, so I'll surely
>> need them unique :)
>
>
> Eduoardo, I REALLY suggest you don't use them at all.  You should make
> a primary key like this:
>
> CREATE TABLE blah (
>   id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
>   ...
> );
>
> Also note that by default, OIDs are NOT dumped by pg_dump.  You will
> need to add extra switches to your pg_dump backup to ensure that they
> are.
>
> Chris
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