Re: Access and Filter Predicate on same execution plan line

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:35:12 -0400
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On 8/18/21 8:02 AM, Jonathan Lewis wrote:
> Not true.
> But thanks to (relatively) recent changes in the costing of index skip
> scans it will appear this way if the number of index entries per value
> of the skipped column(s) is so small that that take less than two
> blocks (which often means you need 3 or 4 hundred rows per leading
> values)

Thanks Jonathan! If I understand you correctly, you are advocating putting the most selective column in order to avoid an expensive operation, not unlike FFS?

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