On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, ow wrote:
> Postgresql 7.4.rc1 on i686 pc linux compiled by gcc 2.06.
> All configuration settings are default.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Trying to find a way to improve range query performance.
>
> The table Test has about 30 million records.
>
> -- DLong, Dtimestamp, Dint, etc are domains of the respective types.
> create table Test (
> id DLong not null,
> a Dtimestamp null,
> b Dint not null,
> c Dint not null,
> d Dstring null,
> constraint PK_id primary key (id),
> constraint AK_abc unique (a, b, c)
> );
I'm not sure that AK_abc is the best index for check a range on a and
single values on b and c. I'd think that something like an index
on (b,c,a) would probably be better for this purpose (without doing any
testing ;) ).
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