Re: Why Not MySQL?
Marten Feldtmann <marten@feki.toppoint.de>
From: Marten Feldtmann <marten@feki.toppoint.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Mitch Vincent <mitch@huntsvilleal.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-05-03T17:57:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@huntsvilleal.com> writes: > > Well, there's still a cost to having a lot of seldom-used indexes, > because the planner has to sit there and consider whether to use each > one for each query. So I'd still recommend looking at your mix of > queries and only creating indexes that match reasonably commonly-used > WHERE clauses. > When doing insert/updates on larger tables (>500.000 entries) these indexes are also time consuming ! For our vertical attribute object storage systems we noticed, that the time for insert/updates are the critical part - they behave very linear in our test suite and they seem to be the limiting factor in our system. Marten