I thought that if I used a view to retrieve data its content might be cached so it would make the query faster. Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2005 21:27 schrieb Klein Balázs: > Or should I instead create a view that contains only the biodata and select > from that? But will postgres use the indexes than? Would that be a better > approach? Whether the query is executed by a view or typed in in its full form by hand is completely irrelevant to the question whether indexes are used or should be created. Views do not optimize anything. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly