Re: UNIQUE constraint and indexing - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Arcady Genkin
Subject Re: UNIQUE constraint and indexing
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Msg-id r1zr8snl8qp.fsf@bashful.cdf.toronto.edu
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In response to Re: UNIQUE constraint and indexing  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>)
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes:

> On 27 Sep 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
> > Is the index, created implicitely by "UNIQUE" constraint, the same
> > kind as created explicitely with "CREATE INDEX"?  In other words,
> > is the following piece of SQL redundant?
> >
> > create table foo (
> >        bar serial primary key,
> >        baz text not null unique );
> > create index foo_baz_idx on foo(baz);
>
> Apart from the index for unique being a unique index, I believe so.

So, the unique index will still be used when processing SELECT
queries, right?  In other words, is the index foo_baz_idx redundant?

THanks,
--
Arcady Genkin

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