Re: Two indexes on same column - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Raghavendra
Subject Re: Two indexes on same column
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In response to Two indexes on same column  (Vlastimil Krejcir <krejcir@ics.muni.cz>)
Responses Re: Two indexes on same column  (Ernesto Quiñones <ernestoq@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Vlastimil Krejcir <krejcir@ics.muni.cz> wrote:
 Hi,

 what index is used (and according to what rules) when there are two (or more) different indexes defined on one column? Assume:

CREATE TABLE example (
id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
...);
CREATE INDEX example_id_idx ON example USING hash (id);

By default there are btree index created and the hash index is then created. So there are two indexes on column "id". Are there described somewhere what index is used and when? Does it depend on query analyzer and planner?

Thanks


You are right, depends on the optimizer and query to which index to choose. EXPLAIN command on the query will give you the optimizer path.

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Regards,
Raghavendra
EnterpriseDB Corporation


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