Re: BRIN indexes

On 01/28/2016 09:41 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> So, IOW, and the answer to my question is yes, it should be insured that
> all pages involved are physically adjacent (by design or by pre-sort)
> before creating a BRIN on them.
> Further to the point, it is self defeating to have more than one BRIN
> index on the table if the columns involved would have mutually
> non-adjacent pages.
> Therefore, it actually would be good to state that in the documentation,
> even it were just a comment.

BRIN indexes are best used on INSERT only tables with a sequence of
numbers as a PK or indexed column that will be queried against. At least
as I understand it.

JD

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