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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
Last updated: Wed May 30 18:57:52 EDT 2001
Last updated: Wed May 30 19:00:33 EDT 2001
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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column statistics on its own, so VACUUM ANALYZE must be run to collect
them periodically.
Indexes are usually not used for ORDER BY or joins: a sequential scan
Indexes are usually not used for ORDER BY or joins. A sequential scan
followed by an explicit sort is faster than an indexscan of all tuples
of a large table, because it takes fewer disk accesses.
of a large table. This is because random disk access is very slow.
When using wild-card operators such as LIKE or ~, indices can only be
used if the beginning of the search is anchored to the start of the