custname = Field(Unicode, index=True)

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 07:37 -0800, dundeemt wrote:
> given:
> 
> class Foo(Entity):
>     custnmbr = Field(Unicode, primary_key=True)
>     custname = Field(Unicode)
> 
> 
> A unique index is created for custnmbr.
> 
> Now an often used field for searching is the custname, but when
> searching/query by custname the database drops to a table scan because
> there is no index on custname.
> 
> 
> question:
> How do I define secondary indices to optimize lookup times?  What are
> these indexes called in the vernacular of sqlalchemy/elixir, because
> searching for secondary index doesn't return anything meaningful.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> > 


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