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* Column Index vs Record Insert Trade-off?
@ 2006-02-09 01:53 Ken Hill <ken@scottshill.com>
2006-02-09 10:25 ` Re: Column Index vs Record Insert Trade-off? Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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From: Ken Hill @ 2006-02-09 01:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is there a performance trade-off between column indexes and record
inserts?
I know that in MS Access there is such a trade-off. This being indexes
make SQL queries perform faster at the cost of record insert speed. Put
another way, the more column indexes in a table, the slower a record
insert in that table performs.
Is there a similar trade-off in PostgreSQL?
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* Re: Column Index vs Record Insert Trade-off?
2006-02-09 01:53 Column Index vs Record Insert Trade-off? Ken Hill <ken@scottshill.com>
@ 2006-02-09 10:25 ` Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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From: Richard Huxton @ 2006-02-09 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ken@scottshill.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql
Ken Hill wrote:
> Is there a performance trade-off between column indexes and record
> inserts?
>
> I know that in MS Access there is such a trade-off. This being indexes
> make SQL queries perform faster at the cost of record insert speed. Put
> another way, the more column indexes in a table, the slower a record
> insert in that table performs.
>
> Is there a similar trade-off in PostgreSQL?
The tradeoff is made in every system. The more indexes you have on a
table, the more indexes need to be updated when you update/insert/delete
rows.
So - a unique constraint automatically implies an index in PostgreSQL
(it's how it implements its unique checks). Other than that, you should
only index those columns where you will want a small number of rows or
quick ordering.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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