On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:49 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > 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. Many thanks for the confirmation. I'm dropping them... ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/