>
> > Would a rule be that
> > if the first attribute of an index is unique, then additional
> > attributes are basically useless?
>
> For PostgreSQL this is currently true, since indexes are currently not
> used for order by. If you have a unique first column in an index,
> then all following columns could only be used for sorting,
> not for faster access (access actually gets worse).
Sorry, don't follow this logic. He is not restricting on the first
field of the index, so the index is not used.
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