Re: disabling an index without deleting it?

["Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:57:51 -0600
"Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

 
> The brick to the head method would use set enable_indexscan = off;
> However, you can delete an index without actually deleting it like so:
> 
> begin;
> drop index abc_dx;
> select ....
> rollback;
> 
> and viola, your index is still there.  note that there are likely some
> locking issues with this, so be careful with it in production.  But on
> a test box it's a very easy way to test various indexes.

Wouldn't you also bloat the index?

Joshua D. Drake



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