This is not correct. An index can accelerate, for instance, max(). Here is also not WHERE or ORDER BY, but index is
useful:
select max(created_at) from delivery;
> 23 окт. 2023 г., в 18:23, Toomas <toomas.kristin@gmail.com> написал(а):
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> There is no reason to use index. The query has neither WHERE nor ORDER BY clause.
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> Toomas
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>> On 23. Oct 2023, at 18:13, Олег Самойлов <splarv@ya.ru> wrote:
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>> Back pardon, but I have a very newbie question. I have a partitioned table, partitioned by primary bigint key, size
ofpartition 10000000. I need to get the number of partition which need to archive, which has all rows are olden then 3
month.Here is query:
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>> SELECT id/10000000 as partition
>> FROM delivery
>> GROUP BY partition
>> HAVING max(created_at) < CURRENT_DATE - '3 month'::interval;
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>> The 'id/10000000 as partition' is a number of the partition, it later will be used inside the partition name.
>> The query runs long by sequence scan. Has anyone any ideas how to rewrite query so it will use any index?
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