Mention BRIN as able to do multi-column indexes

Documentation mentioned B-tree, GiST and GIN as able to do multicolumn
indexes; I failed to add BRIN to the list.

Author: Petr Jediný
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao, Emre Hasegeli

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
index 23bbec6eb7112199ad5607b131274220332b9fac..5f72e7d07359c7035963ae5121bd5bf7e7c8f30b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml
@@ -395,7 +395,8 @@ CREATE INDEX test2_mm_idx ON test2 (major, minor);
   
 
   
-   Currently, only the B-tree, GiST and GIN index types support multicolumn
+   Currently, only the B-tree, GiST, GIN, and BRIN
+   index types support multicolumn
    indexes.  Up to 32 columns can be specified.  (This limit can be
    altered when building PostgreSQL; see the
    file pg_config_manual.h.)
@@ -440,6 +441,15 @@ CREATE INDEX test2_mm_idx ON test2 (major, minor);
    the query conditions use.
   
 
+  
+   A multicolumn BRIN index can be used with query conditions that
+   involve any subset of the index's columns. Like GIN and unlike B-tree or
+   GiST, index search effectiveness is the same regardless of which index
+   column(s) the query conditions use. The only reason to have multiple BRIN
+   indexes instead of one multicolumn BRIN index on a single table is to have
+   a different pages_per_range storage parameter.
+  
+
   
    Of course, each column must be used with operators appropriate to the index
    type; clauses that involve other operators will not be considered.