Re: Covering Indexes

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:16 AM, David E. Wheeler <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> wrote:
> Hackers,
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> Very interesting design document for SQLite 4:
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>  http://www.sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/design.wiki
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> I'm particularly intrigued by "covering indexes". For example:
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>    CREATE INDEX cover1 ON table1(a,b) COVERING(c,d);
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> This allows the following query to do an index-only scan:
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>    SELECT c, d FROM table1 WHERE a=? AND b=?;
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> Now that we have index-only scans in 9.2, I'm wondering if it would make sense to add covering index support, too, where additional, unindexed columns are stored alongside indexed columns.
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> And I wonder if it would work well with expressions, too?
>
> David

IRC MS SQL also allow unindexed columns in the index.

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