On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:04:15 -0700,
Benjamin Arai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a database where there are three columns (name,date,data). The
> queries are almost always something like SELECT date,data FROM table WHERE
> name=blah AND date > 1/1/2005 AND date < 1/1/2006;. I currently have three
> B-tree indexes, one for each of the columns. Is clustering on date index
> going to be what I want, or do I need a index that contains both name and
> date?
I would expect that clustering on the name would be better for the above
query.
You probably want an index on name and date combined.
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