On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:59:32PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: > > I was thinking about using a multicolumns index, but I have read that > > we should limit multicolumns indice to at most 2 or 3 columns. > > Yes, that's true, the index overhead gets too high. > > > I was also thinking about about using a functional index. > > If there's a logical relation between those values that they can easily > combined, that may be a good alternative. How would that be any better than just doing a multi-column index? > I just had another weird idea: > > As your paramXX values can have only 10 parameters, it also might be > feasible to use a bunch of 10 conditional indices, like: > > CREATE INDEX foo1 ON table (param1, param2 WHERE param0='1st value'; > CREATE INDEX foo2 ON table (param1, param2 WHERE param0='2nd value'; > CREATE INDEX foo3 ON table (param1, param2 WHERE param0='3rd value'; > [...] Not all that weird; it's known as index partitioning. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
