On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:01:39 +0100, Andreas Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > considering that almost 70% of the rows will be with 'VALUE1', 20% > > will be with 'VALUE2' and 10% will be with 'VALUE3' on the average. > > > > should I create an index to speedup the counts or not ? > > Yes.
Indexes will probably not help in this case. Even when looking at 10% of the rows, a sequential scan is still going to be faster than an index scan in most cases. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])