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11 | 11 | <H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
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| - <P>Last updated: Sat Jun 3 20:17:01 EDT 2006</P> |
| 13 | + <P>Last updated: Wed Jun 7 17:22:48 EDT 2006</P> |
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15 | 15 | <P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
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16 | 16 | "mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)
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695 | 695 | <P>One limitation is that indexes can not be created on columns
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696 | 696 | longer than about 2,000 characters. Fortunately, such indexes are
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| 697 | + rarely needed. Uniqueness is best guaranteed by a function index |
698 | 698 | of an MD5 hash of the long column, and full text indexing
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699 | 699 | allows for searching of words within the column.</P>
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812 | 812 | FROM tab
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813 | 813 | WHERE lower(col) = 'abc';
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814 | 814 | </PRE>
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| - This will not use an standard index. However, if you create a |
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| 815 | + This will not use an standard index. However, if you create an |
| 816 | + expression index, it will be used: |
817 | 817 | <PRE>
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818 | 818 | CREATE INDEX tabindex ON tab (lower(col));
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819 | 819 | </PRE>
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958 | 958 | <P>Every row that is created in PostgreSQL gets a unique
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959 | 959 | <SMALL>OID</SMALL> unless created <SMALL>WITHOUT OIDS</SMALL>.
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| - O<SMALL>ID</SMALL>s are autotomatically assigned unique 4-byte |
| 960 | + O<SMALL>ID</SMALL>s are automatically assigned unique 4-byte |
961 | 961 | integers that are unique across the entire installation. However,
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962 | 962 | they overflow at 4 billion, and then the O<SMALL>ID</SMALL>s start
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963 | 963 | being duplicated. PostgreSQL uses <SMALL>OID</SMALL>s to link its
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