On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
> What exactly would be the point? Indexes are automatically maintained by
> postgres. Something that isn't doesn't seem to me to qualify for the
> description of "index".
Perhaps an index without data that could be used by the planner for
automatic query tuning to evaluate how a query could run if the index
exists? Like the concept of hypothetical indexes or something like the
possibility to do a CREATE/ALTER INDEX ... WITH [ NO ] DATA.
--
Michael