Re: CREATE INDEX uses INDEX ? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Guillaume Lelarge
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In response to CREATE INDEX uses INDEX ?  (Nicolas Paris <niparisco@gmail.com>)
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Le 7 mars 2015 11:32, "Nicolas Paris" <niparisco@gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hello,
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> I wonder if the process of index creation can benefit from other indexes.
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It cannot.

> EG: Creating a partial index with predicat based on a boolean column, will use an hypothetic index on that boolean column or always use a seq scan on all rows ?
>

Nope, it always does a seqscan.

> Goal is to create partial indexes faster.
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> Explain command does not work with Create index.
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You cannot use EXPLAIN on most DDL commands.

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