Large index

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#1Yambu
hyambu@gmail.com

What disadvantage does a large table (30mil records) has over a small table
about 20k records when it comes to querying using an indexed column?

#2Michael Lewis
mlewis@entrata.com
In reply to: Yambu (#1)
Re: Large index

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020, 6:52 AM Yambu <hyambu@gmail.com> wrote:

What disadvantage does a large table (30mil records) has over a small
table about 20k records when it comes to querying using an indexed column?

Table with 20k rows will likely fit entirely into shared_buffers and not
involve any disk i/o for its use.

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