GIN Index for low cardinality - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ravi Krishna
Subject GIN Index for low cardinality
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Msg-id E260AEE7-95B3-4142-9A4B-A4416F1701F0@aol.com
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In response to Re: Problem creating a database  (Joshua White <joshua.white@monash.edu>)
Responses Re: GIN Index for low cardinality  (Олег Самойлов <splarv@ya.ru>)
Re: GIN Index for low cardinality  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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it is mentioned:

"GIN, the most know non-default index type perhaps, has been actually around for ages (full-text search) and in short is perfect for indexing columns where there are lot of repeating values – think all kinds of statuses or good old Mr/Mrs/Miss. GIN only stores every unique column value only once as for the default B-tree you’ll have e.g. 1 millon leaf nodes with the integer “1” in it."


Does it mean that GIN is a very good choice for low cardinality columns.  

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