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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: "Mr N.L. Parker" <ccnp@cacofonix.utr.ac.za>
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Subject: Re: Multi-key indices in postgres. 
Reply-To: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 29 Aug 1994 16:39:38 +0200 (GMT+0200) 
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"Mr N.L. Parker" <ccnp@cacofonix.utr.ac.za> writes:
> Is there an easy way to create multi-key indices in Postgres - have 
> browsed the manual but looks like it gets complicated ..? Maybe I am 
> missing something obvious.

no, there's no easy way.  the key data-type concatenation method 
works (it's used internally).
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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