On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:04:15 -0700, Benjamin Arai <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
