The `problem` is that i dont know if having so many indexes will raise problems as the data dimension grown. And i am not even sure that this design is truly reliable; For example, if i would to know how many employees have every company, i'll have to run that query: ----- EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT c.id, c.company_name, count(e.id) AS num_employee FROM contact AS c LEFT JOIN contact AS e ON (c.id = e.id_company) WHERE c.tipo = 'company' GROUP BY c.id, c.company_name ----- That seem to be not very efficient: http://explain.depesz.com/s/Q0m (I loaded some test data from http://www.generatedata.com/#generator, so now i have 23893 rows in the table.. oh, i added a index on the 'kind' (tipo) column too) On 23 Giu, 13:47, gryz...@xxxxxxxxx (Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz) wrote: > it looks ok on explain, that is - the cost isn't too high. > So what's the problem ? > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general