Thread: Partial indexing

Partial indexing

From
Varun Kacholia
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 >  Isnt the following query supported in postgresql (it is surely useful and
> >  supported in MySQL )
> >  CREATE INDEX t_index ON (NAME(20) , ID);

> I can't see any particular value in that myself, but Postgres supports
> a generic approach to weird indexing requirements: functional indexes.

Well, i think that partial indexing (on a column) can save a  disk
space as well as, a lot of time.In my opinion the query above
is much better than the one below (in terms of time) :

> >  CREATE INDEX t_index ON (NAME(200) , ID);


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Varun