Re: Forcing more agressive index scans for BITMAP AND - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Matthew
Subject Re: Forcing more agressive index scans for BITMAP AND
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.64.0804081156540.20402@aragorn.flymine.org
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In response to Re: Forcing more agressive index scans for BITMAP AND  (Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>)
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I moved from multicolumn indexes to individual indexes because the
> queries does not always utilise the same few indexes, some users would
> use
>
> eg: index F, A, B or D,A,E or any other combination.

Yes, that does make it more tricky, but it still may be best to use
multicolumn indexes. You would just need to create an index for each of
the combinations that you are likely to use.

Matthew

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