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Larry Rosenman <ler@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Question: Do all these need to have a bare index just on the account_id 
> column, or is a multicolumn index with account_id first
> sufficient for the check to be reasonably quick?

I would think that such an index would be sufficient, but you could
check for yourself by doing something like

	explain select 1 from <table> where account_id = <something>

and verifying that you get an indexscan not a seqscan, for each
dependent table.

			regards, tom lane


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