Re: temporary indexes?

From: vincent elschot <vinny(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: temporary indexes?
Date: 2015-10-22 12:17:52
Message-ID: 5628D3F0.7040709@xs4all.nl
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On 21-10-15 20:43, Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
> I couldn't find any mention of this on the archives...
>
> Have the project maintainers ever considered extending CREATE INDEX to support "temporary" indexes like CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE?
>
> When creating temporary tables for analytics/reporting, I've noticed that I often need to create (then drop) indexes on regular tables. Temporary indexes seemed like a natural fit here, so i was wondering if there was any reason why they're not supported (other than no one wanted it!)
>
Do you mean creating a temporary index on a non-temporary table to speed
up the queries that fills the temporary table?

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