On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 12:07 +0100, Dominique Devienne wrote: > But I'm sure indexes on columns "not used at all in a statement" are eliminated early and easily/cheaply, > w/o even getting into more complex consideration like statistics and co. Aren't they? You may want a "SELECT count(*) FROM tab" to consider an index-only scan on a small index, right? I'm not saying that it is a large overhead, but if you actually have dozens of indexes, it can make processing slower. Yours, Laurenz Albe
