Re: Indexes again - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Indexes again
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Msg-id 43E20561.6030409@archonet.com
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In response to Indexes again  (Silas Justiniano <silasju@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Indexes again  (Silas Justiniano <silasju@gmail.com>)
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Silas Justiniano wrote:
>   Sorry, I'll remake (rewrite? redo? ... bad English :/ ) my question:
>
>   I have Books, Authors and Intermediate table. At intermediate I'm
> currently using the following indexes:
>
>   CREATE INDEX authorIndex ON Intermediate(author_id);
>   CREATE INDEX bookIndex ON Intermediate(book_id);
>
>   I need a third index to not allow duplicated data in my table:
>
>   CREATE UNIQUE INDEX blablabla ON Intermediate(author_id, book_id);
>
>   I'd like to know if, using the third index I can delete one of the
> first. Maybe both?

You can probably delete authorIndex without impacting performance too much.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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