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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Advice on optimizing select/index
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 14:34:10 +0200
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On 22.05.2013 16:37, Niels Kristian Schjødt wrote:

> In reality the adverts that are selected is all 'active'. I'm hence
> wondering if it theoretically (and in reality of cause) would make my
> query faster if I did something like:  "SELECT .* FROM cars LEFT
> OUTER JOIN adverts on cars.id = adverts.car_id WHERE cars.brand =
> 'Audi' AND adverts.state = 'active'" with a partial index on "INDEX
> adverts ON (car_id) WHERE state = 'active'"?

That sounds reasonable to do.  If you have enough bandwidth on your 
production database why not just try it out?  Otherwise you could do 
this on a test database and see how it goes and what plan you get.  Btw. 
did you look at the original plan?

Cheers

	robert




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