问题
I've recently stopped to think that Primary Keys are not indexes, they're a combination of Unique and Null constraints. And till now, I've never created index for PK columns. My question is if I should create index for PK columns if this column is going to be used in the WHERE part of many queries.
回答1:
Oracle will create an index for you, or can use an existing one. Whether a unique or non-unique index is used is up to you.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28310/indexes003.htm#i1006566
A primary key itself is not an index, and nor is a unique constraint -- they are both constraints. However an index is used to support them.
A unique index is rather different as it can exist in the absence of a unique or primary key constraint, and neither constraint type require that the index supporting it be unique.
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15703640/should-i-index-primary-key-columns-in-oracle