On 2/15/23 21:45, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-02-15 at 10:20 -0600, Ron wrote:
>> On 2/15/23 02:46, Laurenz Albe wrote:
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>>> Both are the same.
>>> There is an old myth that says that you should use the more selective column first
>>> (which would be "code"), but that is just a myth.
>> Only on Postgresql?
> No, on all relational databases that use B-tree indexes.
Not only is "all" is a very absolute word (I know of a counter-example), but
querying on the second segment means that you have to scan the whole tree
instead of isolating one sub-branch.
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