The case for partial indexes

  • Authors:
  • M. Stonebraker

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley,

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Current data managers support secondary and/or primary indexes on columns of relations. In this paper we suggest the advantages that result from indexes which contain only some of the possible values in a column of a relation.