Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] is a good practice to create an index on the

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Edoardo Ceccarelli <eddy(at)axa(dot)it>, "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [JDBC] [PERFORM] is a good practice to create an index on the
Date: 2004-04-27 11:59:47
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AFAIK, oids aren't used for anything internally, so duplicates don't
really matter. Besides, what would you do about duplicate oid's ?

The best suggestion is of course his last, don't use them.

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 22:48, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > I am using the oid of the table as the main key and I've found that is
> > not indexed (maybe because I have declared another primary key in the
> > table)
> >
> > it is a good practice to create an index like this on the oid of a table?
> > CREATE INDEX idoid annuncio400 USING btree (oid);
>
> Yes it is - in fact you really should add a unique index, not just a
> normal index, as you want to enforce uniqueness of the oid column. It
> is theoretically possible to end up with duplicate oids in wraparound
> situations.
>
> Even better though is to not use oids at all, of course...
>
> Chris
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