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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL |
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Last updated: Tue May 22 17:50:25 EDT 2001 |
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Last updated: Wed May 30 18:57:52 EDT 2001 |
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) |
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@ -709,9 +709,9 @@ Maximum number of indexes on a table? unlimited |
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column statistics on its own, so VACUUM ANALYZE must be run to collect |
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them periodically. |
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Indexes are usually not used for ORDER BY operations: a sequential |
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scan followed by an explicit sort is faster than an indexscan of all |
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tuples of a large table, because it takes fewer disk accesses. |
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Indexes are usually not used for ORDER BY or joins: a sequential scan |
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followed by an explicit sort is faster than an indexscan of all tuples |
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of a large table, because it takes fewer disk accesses. |
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When using wild-card operators such as LIKE or ~, indices can only be |
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used if the beginning of the search is anchored to the start of the |
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