Re: Creating indexes - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Rauan Maemirov
Subject Re: Creating indexes
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In response to Creating indexes  (Rauan Maemirov <rauan1987@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-performance
On May 9, 1:49 am, asche.pub...@mac.com (Asche) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Hi, all. I want to ask what type of index is better to create for
> > bigint types. I have table with bigint (bigserial) primary key. What
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-createtable.html
>
> PostgreSQL automatically creates an index for each unique constraint  
> and primary key constraint to enforce uniqueness. Thus, it is not  
> necessary to create an index explicitly for primary key columns.
>
> > type is better to use for it? I tried btree and hash, but didn't
>
> You already have an index on your bigint primary key. I think it is of  
> type btree.
>
> Jan

Aah, I understand. Thanks to all for detailed response.

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