Fwd: Re: RTREE Index on primary key generated by a sequence
От | Jean-Paul ARGUDO |
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Тема | Fwd: Re: RTREE Index on primary key generated by a sequence |
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Msg-id | 20020125155700.GB31304@pastis обсуждение исходный текст |
Список | pgsql-hackers |
Oopps was not a group reply, sorry all you reader of the list :-) ----- Forwarded message from Jean-Paul ARGUDO <jean-paul.argudo@IDEALX.com> ----- From: Jean-Paul ARGUDO <jean-paul.argudo@IDEALX.com> To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] RTREE Index on primary key generated by a sequence > > Since I was at first Oracle DBA, I've been told many times at > > professional trainings that when there is a table wich primary key is > > generated by a sequence, it is worth create a RTREE index on it rather > > than a BTREE (for index balancing reasons). > > Huh? > > RTREEs are for two-or-more-dimensional data (the implementation in PG > only handles 2-D, IIRC). So they're not applicable to scalar data. > In any case, the claim that RTREEs are more readily balanced than BTREEs > seems totally unfounded to me. > > In PG, the btree implementation is by far the best-tested, > best-optimized index access method we have; for example, it's the only > one that has decent support for concurrent access. If you want to use > one of the other ones, I'd recommend you have a darn good reason. > > regards, tom lane Thanks Tom for such good advice :) Thus, I made a big mistake this is not RTREE that I am talking about but BTREE with reversed keys. It's the Oracle keyword REVERSE that perturbed me :-) So, what about BTREEs with reversed keys? Sorry again for the mistake. Thanks for the response. -- Jean-Paul ARGUDO IDEALX S.A.S Consultant bases de données 15-17, av. de Ségur http://IDEALX.com/ F-75007 PARIS ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Jean-Paul ARGUDO IDEALX S.A.S Consultant bases de données 15-17, av. de Ségur http://IDEALX.com/ F-75007 PARIS
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