Re: redundants indexes can be created - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bernd Helmle
Subject Re: redundants indexes can be created
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Msg-id 76D3950ED8DF525220B9D529@imhotep.credativ.de
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In response to Re: redundants indexes can be created  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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--On Freitag, Juli 04, 2008 11:26:31 +0100 Richard Huxton
<dev@archonet.com> wrote:

> You ask for a particular index, it creates the index. Why complicate the
> code checking for possible duplicate indexes if it's not a problem people
> tend to encounter?

And what would characterize a "duplicate" index? Think about partial
indexes, where we actually _want_ to have multiple indexes for certain
ranges on the same column.

--
  Thanks

                    Bernd

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