Re: Using more tha one index per table

[Rob Wultsch <wultsch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:53 AM, A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In response to Elias Ghanem :

> Hi,
> I have a question concerning the uses of indexes in Postgresql.
> I red that in PG a query can not use more than one index per table: "a query or
> data manipulation command can use at most one index per table".

That's not true, but it's true for MySQL, afaik.


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That is not true either, though MySQL is less good at using bitmap'ed indexes. 5.0 can use "merge indexes",

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