Ow Mun Heng wrote:
I'm wondering if what I'm doing is redundant. I have a primary key on columns (A,B,C,D) and I've also defined an index based on the same columns (A,B,C,D) and sometimes in the query explain, I see the pkey being used for the scan instead of the index. So.. That made me think perhaps the additional index on the _same_ parameter is redundant.
A primary key creates an index so having a second index with the same definition is redundant.
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