On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Tom Lane
<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
I suppose the problem is that rows with processed = false are very few
in the upper range of data. If so, and if you really need this to go
fast, a partial index might be worth its overhead:
create index foo on staticstats(data) where processed = false;
I mostly scan that table for processed=false. Everything with processed = true is really useless, and there to guard other tables against duplication (all other tables contain pretty much the same data, but information about relation isn't stored - because whole structure is quite complicated, and I need to retrieve data from other tables in matter of miliseconds - I get live graphs plotted based on huge range of input params, no chance to pre-render it).
I also thought about create index bar staticstats(data, processed) where processed = false;
but that would be useful only to that query.
Can postgres use combined indicies for queries that would only require part of it ?
iow, do I have to create index for every possible combination that can be used in a query ? what's the best way to do it ?
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GJ