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Re: Shorthand for foreign key indices

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On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 09:04:49AM -0400, John D. Burger wrote:
> >I know that it was decided a fair few releases ago to stop creating an
> >implicit index for each foreign key,
> 
> By the way, I presume foreign key indices are used to check for 
> referential integrity on insert.  Can the query planner also use then 
> somehow?

It can use them the same way it can use any other index.
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