Re: [PERFORM] index usage on arrays

2008-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
andrew klassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any alternative to what am I currently doing other than creating a > row for > each array element, Since (I think) 8.2, you could create a GIN index on the array column and then array overlap (&&) would be indexable. GIN has some performance

Re: [PERFORM] index usage on arrays

2008-02-07 Thread Oleg Bartunov
andrew, what are your queries ? Have you seen contrib/intarray, GIN index ? On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, andrew klassen wrote: I am using Postgres 8.2.5. I have a table that has rows containing a variable length array with a known maximum. I was doing selects on the array elements using an ANY match

[PERFORM] index usage on arrays

2008-02-07 Thread andrew klassen
I am using Postgres 8.2.5. I have a table that has rows containing a variable length array with a known maximum. I was doing selects on the array elements using an ANY match. The performance was not too good as my table got bigger. So I added an index on the array. That didn't help since the