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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Martin Pitt
  • Date: 2011-05-11 10:41:53 UTC
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20110511104153-psbh2o58553fv1m0
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 
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<HTML
 
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>Indexes</TITLE
 
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NAME="GENERATOR"
 
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK
 
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REV="MADE"
 
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HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK
 
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REL="HOME"
 
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TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.1beta1 Documentation"
 
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
 
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REL="UP"
 
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TITLE="The SQL Language"
 
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HREF="sql.html"><LINK
 
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REL="PREVIOUS"
 
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TITLE="UNION, CASE, and Related Constructs"
 
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HREF="typeconv-union-case.html"><LINK
 
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REL="NEXT"
 
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TITLE="Introduction"
 
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HREF="indexes-intro.html"><LINK
 
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NAME="creation"
 
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CONTENT="2011-04-27T21:20:33"></HEAD
 
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><A
 
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>PostgreSQL 9.1beta1 Documentation</A
 
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TITLE="UNION, CASE, and Related Constructs"
 
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>Prev</A
 
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NAME="INDEXES"
 
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>Chapter 11. Indexes</H1
 
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>Table of Contents</B
 
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>11.1. <A
 
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>Introduction</A
 
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>Index Types</A
 
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>Multicolumn Indexes</A
 
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>11.4. <A
 
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>Indexes and <TT
 
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>ORDER BY</TT
 
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>11.5. <A
 
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>Combining Multiple Indexes</A
 
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>11.6. <A
 
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>Unique Indexes</A
 
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>11.7. <A
 
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>Indexes on Expressions</A
 
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>Partial Indexes</A
 
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>11.9. <A
 
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>Operator Classes and Operator Families</A
 
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>Indexes and Collations</A
 
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>Examining Index Usage</A
 
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><P
 
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>  Indexes are a common way to enhance database performance.  An index
 
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  allows the database server to find and retrieve specific rows much
 
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  faster than it could do without an index.  But indexes also add
 
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  overhead to the database system as a whole, so they should be used
 
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