Re: Multi-column GIN

On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Teodor Sigaev wrote:

>> What's the benefit of a multi-column GIN index over multiple
>> single-column GIN indexes?
>
> Page 12 from presentation on PgCon
> (http://www.sigaev.ru/gin/fastinsert_and_multicolumn_GIN.pdf):
>
> Multicolumn index vs.  2 single column indexes
>
> Size:    539 Mb        538 Mb
> Speed:   *1.885* ms    4.994 ms
> Index:   ~340 s        ~200 s
> Insert:  72 s/10000    66 s/10000

Well, another reason is a index feature-completeness

     Regards,
         Oleg
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