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On 2017-09-19 10:08, Job wrote:
Hi,

within a query with two or more conditions with "OR", example:

"where a = 2 or b < 3"

could be useful to speed up the query a multi-column index (a,b) even
though the two conditions are in "OR" and not in "AND"?

Thank you!
F

Having any kind of index usually better than none because it may prevent a seqscan,
but an OR probably works faster if you have a separate index on B.

But, EXPLAIN can show you what the database actually does, and give some indication
of why it thinks it should do it that way.

regards, Vincent.


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