Re: Invisible Indexes

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Invisible Indexes
Date: 2018-06-18 22:12:29
Message-ID: CAOBaU_bXz3fDBjUS5nBpFpP9y2hkoMcc3fus7D9uqPdO12XWcw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:05 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Well, what I was thinking about was that this functionality already
> exists (I think) in one or more "index advisor" plugins. It's possible
> that they've all bit-rotted for lack of support, which would not speak
> highly of the demand for the feature. But if we feel this is worth
> pulling into core, I think something along the lines of a GUC listing
> indexes to ignore for planning purposes might be a better design.
> It'd certainly dodge the issues you mentioned about lack of mutability
> of pg_index entries.

I know only one extension which does exactly that:
https://github.com/postgrespro/plantuner

It seems that it's still maintained.

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