On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM David G. Johnston <
david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Selectivity is evaluating cardinality with an eye on the frequency of
> the values you are actually going to be filtering on.  So low cardinality
> booleans can be highly selective in usage if you are looking for the rare
> false in a sea of trues but low selectivity if looking through those trues.
>

And to accommodate the highly-selective case a partial index is much better
than indexing the low cardinality boolean column values.

David J.

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