Existence of tuples in relations and a multicolumn index.

From: Tzahi Fadida <tzahi_ml(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Existence of tuples in relations and a multicolumn index.
Date: 2005-03-23 16:50:46
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If I have a relation and create a multicolumn index on all the
attributes,
would the index be bigger than the relation itself?
would it be more efficient to keep the relation ordered on all the
attribute if I have
a lot of additions?
I have relations that are only incremental in time and they are huge,
i.e. exponential
in the size of the rest of the database.
The problem arises when I have to check for existence of a tuple in
those type
of relations.

Regards,
tzahi.

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