Re: [GENERAL] btree index on a char(8) field (fwd)

From: Frank Mandarino <fam(at)risca(dot)com>
To: Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] btree index on a char(8) field (fwd)
Date: 1999-10-07 03:47:32
Message-ID: 99Oct6.234802edt.115201@sky.risca.com
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Hermouth,

Thank you so much for your reply! You were exactly right. I re-created
the index with bpchar_ops, and explain now outputs:

Index Scan using ven_code_idx on vendor (cost=2.05 rows=2 width=36)

instead of

Seq Scan on vendor (cost=738.86 rows=2 width=36)

Queries are obviously much faster now.

I am unable to find any reference to bpchar_ops in the the documentation
or the General and SQL mailing list archives. Can you tell me where I
could find out more about what "_ops" are available and what they all
mean?

Thanks again,
../fam
--
Frank A. Mandarino
fam(at)risca(dot)com

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> At 15:30 +0200 on 06/10/1999, Frank Mandarino wrote:
>
>
> > main=> create index ven_code_idx on vendor using btree (ven_code char_ops);
> > CREATE
>
> I didn't have time to check this, but the problem may be caused by the
> incorrect ops you are using. For char(N) it should be bpchar_ops, not
> char_ops.
>
> Herouth
>
> --
> Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
> Open University of Israel - Telem project
> http://telem.openu.ac.il/~herutma
>
>
>
> ************
>

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