Index Advisor Limitations v13

Index Advisor does not consider Index Only scans; it does consider Index scans when making recommendations.

Index Advisor ignores any computations found in the WHERE clause. Effectively, the index field in the recommendations will not be any kind of expression; the field will be a simple column name.

Index Advisor does not consider inheritance when recommending hypothetical indexes. If a query references a parent table, Index Advisor does not make any index recommendations on child tables.

Restoration of a pg_dump backup file that includes the index_advisor_log table or any tables for which indexing recommendations were made and stored in the index_advisor_log table, may result in "broken links" between the index_advisor_log table and the restored tables referenced by rows in the index_advisor_log table because of changes in object identifiers (OIDs).

If it is necessary to display the recommendations made prior to the backup, you can replace the old OIDs in the reloid column of the index_advisor_log table with the new OIDs of the referenced tables using the SQL UPDATE statement:

UPDATE index_advisor_log SET reloid = new_oid WHERE reloid = old_oid;