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Re: increase index performance

From: Matthew Wakeling
Subject: Re: increase index performance
Date: ,
Msg-id: alpine.DEB.2.00.0905141118360.2341@aragorn.flymine.org
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In response to: Re: increase index performance  ("Ow Mun Heng")
Responses: Re: increase index performance  ("Ow Mun Heng")
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increase index performance  (Thomas Finneid, )
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    Re: increase index performance  ("Ow Mun Heng", )
     Re: increase index performance  (Matthew Wakeling, )
      Re: increase index performance  ("Ow Mun Heng", ) 
On Thu, 14 May 2009, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Shouldn't BITMAP indexes come into play?
>
> Does having one index w/ 3 parameters being better than 3 index w/ 3
> different parameters be better for BITMAP index seeks?

I'll let someone correct me if I'm wrong, but using a single index that
exactly covers your search is always going to be better than munging
together results from several indexes, even if the planner decides to turn
it into a bitmap index scan (which will be more likely in PG8.4 with
effective_concurrency set).

Matthew

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