Michele Bendazzoli writes:
> ALTER TABLE public.table1
>   ADD CONSTRAINT table1_pkey PRIMARY KEY(a, b, c);
>
> are the indexes over (a) and (a, b) redundant (and so useless)?
Exactly.
> p.s. I know, I'll have to begin to use the explain command ...
> I promise I'll do it ;-)
You could also have read the documentation about multicolumn indexes,
because it contains exactly this example.
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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net