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I have tried testing the perofmance on indexing array element using standard btree and it doesn't help anything. It still costing alot.
 
create index idx_properties_address_4 on properties  ((address_arr[4]))
 
does contrib/intarray effective for text array?


On 3/16/06, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
contrib/intarray might help you

Oleg
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, karly@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:36:04AM -0700, Brendan Duddridge wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to put an index on an array column?
>
> Apparently yes (I just did it as a test).  However, consider the
> following from the manual.
>
>   Tip:  Arrays are not sets; searching for specific array elements
>   may be a sign of database misdesign. Consider using a separate
>   table with a row for each item that would be an array element. This
>   will be easier to search, and is likely to scale up better to large
>   numbers of elements.[1]
>
> Arrays are attractive, but it seems they most often aren't the best
> solution. FOr instance, I beleive I read somewhere that the index
> will be on the whole array, and the individual elements are not
> indexed, so
>
>   WHERE ary = {foo,bar}
>
> might benefit from your index, but
>
>   WHERE 'foo' = ANY(ary)
>
> probably wouldn't.  At least that's the impression I got from
> reading the archives of this list.  I haven't done any testing of
> it.
>
>
> -karl
>
>
>
> 1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/arrays.html#AEN5491
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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