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[James Briggs <james.briggs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jared and Sergei.
I've been doing some work with Postgresql, and have learned more abouthow partial indexes are used.
It seems partial indexes are a general "design pattern" they use to:
1) have smaller indexes by including less rows2) reduce write-amplification performance issuesas Postgresql likes to update all table indexes on each update (see #1)
PG Patch: Write Amplification Reduction Method (WARM)
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABOikdMNy6yowA+wTGK9RVd8iw+CzqHeQSGpW7Yka_4RSZ_LOQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
3) accomplish various "tricks" similar to the null unique index we discussed:https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/indexes-partial.html

Indexing an ip range within an access_log table is an interesting use case above.

I might use partial indexes for OLAP applications (drop indexes, load data, add partial index.)And potentially smaller indexes is nice while using relatively small SSDs.

Thanks, James.

      From: Jared Beck <jared@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 8:37 AM
 Subject: Re: [Maria-developers] Partial indexes?
   
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In MariaDB (and in SQL standard) the way to achieve that
> would be to use a nullable column for active, and mark inactive users
> with NULL. Then you can create a unique index on (phone,active).

That is a neat trick, thanks James and Sergei!

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Jared Beck • (607) 216-5373 • jared@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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