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From: Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@simkin.ca>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Creating indexes
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:52:30 -0700
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On Thursday 08 May 2008, Rauan Maemirov <rauan1987@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all. I want to ask what type of index is better to create for
> bigint types. I have table with bigint (bigserial) primary key. What
> type is better to use for it? I tried btree and hash, but didn't
> notice any differences in execution time. 

A primary key is a unique btree index, and it's as about as good as it gets 
for a bigint.

-- 
Alan

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