Subject Foreign key without an index?
Author Bob Murdoch
I could swear that I saw somewhere that with FB 2 you would be able to
avoid creating an index on the table the FK is defined on. For
instance:



create table Five_Row (

five_row_id bigint not null,

name varchar(20),

primary key (five_row_id));



create table Million_Row (

million_row_id bigint not null,

five_row_id bigint not null,

name varchr(20),

primary key (million_row_id),

foreign key (five_row_id) references five_row (five_row_id));



In this case, there will be an index created on Million_Row to support
the five_row_id FK. However, since there are only five possible
values, the number of duplicates in this index are going to be
astronomical. Is there a way to avoid the creation of this index?



Thanks,



Bob M..





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