Re: will foreign key improve select query performance

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petchimuthu lingam wrote:
If i create foreign key references, whether it will improve the performance in the select query?

Foreign keys are used to create integrity in the database, it won't affect select performance.

eg:

create table users (
  userid int primary key,
  username text
);

create table news (
  newsid int primary key,
  created_by int references users(userid)
);

That means that a news item cannot be created by a userid that doesn't exist.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/tutorial-fk.html

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