One of our tables, with a couple hundred thousand rows) has a date-column index. We expire things out of the table every day (the vast majority, but not exclusively, stuff that's a couple days old). We're frequently running queries against the table, looking for "everything since this time yesterday"; we hardly ever look back more than 24 hours.
If I created the index as something like:
CREATE INDEX ix_foo ON foo(the_date)
WHERE the_date >= now() - interval '24 hours';what might I expect as the impact? Do index values older than 24 hours drop out? Or must I "refresh" the index from time to time (in our application, probably a couple dozen times a day)?
And, absent pat answers to this, is there anything out there in PG-land that documents partial indexes, and when to use them?
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