Re: [despammed] question about index

From: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)despammed(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)despammed(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [despammed] question about index
Date: 2004-12-16 14:15:57
Message-ID: 20041216141557.GA17096@Pinguin.wug-glas.de
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am 16.12.2004, um 8:10:25 -0600 mailte Bruno Wolff III folgendes:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:01:39 +0100,
> Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)despammed(dot)com> wrote:
> > >
> > > considering that almost 70% of the rows will be with 'VALUE1', 20%
> > > will be with 'VALUE2' and 10% will be with 'VALUE3' on the average.
> > >
> > > should I create an index to speedup the counts or not ?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Indexes will probably not help in this case. Even when looking at 10% of
> the rows, a sequential scan is still going to be faster than an index
> scan in most cases.

Okay.

Andreas
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