> Obviously, many indexes are unique and thus won't have duplicates at
> all.  But if someone creates an index and doesn't make it unique, odds
> are very high that it has some duplicates.  Not sure how many we
> typically expect to see, but more than zero...

Peter may not, but I personally admin lots of databases which have
indexes on values like "category" or "city" which have 100's or 1000's
of duplicates per value.  I don't think this is uncommon at all.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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