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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
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- Last updated: Wed May 30 18:57:52 EDT 2001
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+ Last updated: Wed May 30 19:00:33 EDT 2001
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Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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column statistics on its own, so VACUUM ANALYZE must be run to collect
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them periodically.
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- Indexes are usually not used for ORDER BY or joins: a sequential scan
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+ Indexes are usually not used for ORDER BY or joins. A sequential scan
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followed by an explicit sort is faster than an indexscan of all tuples
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- of a large table, because it takes fewer disk accesses .
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+ of a large table. This is because random disk access is very slow .
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When using wild-card operators such as LIKE or ~, indices can only be
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used if the beginning of the search is anchored to the start of the
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< H1 > Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</ H1 >
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- < P > Last updated: Wed May 30 18:57:52 EDT 2001</ P >
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+ < P > Last updated: Wed May 30 19:00:33 EDT 2001</ P >
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< P > Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (< A href =
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periodically.</ P >
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< P > Indexes are usually not used for < SMALL > ORDER BY</ SMALL >
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- or joins: a sequential scan followed by an explicit sort is
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- faster than an indexscan of all tuples of a large table, because it
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- takes fewer disk accesses .</ P >
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+ or joins. A sequential scan followed by an explicit sort is
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+ faster than an indexscan of all tuples of a large table. This
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+ is because random disk access is very slow .</ P >
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< P > When using wild-card operators such as < SMALL > LIKE</ SMALL > or
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< I > ~,</ I > indices can only be used if the beginning of the search
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