[sgarland]

From the same page:

> In InnoDB, each record in a secondary index contains the primary key columns for the row, as well as the columns specified for the secondary index.

I think that unless you're only doing table scans, or your rows are inserted in no discernible order, you should see a speedup. If the latter though, then yes of course, page jumps are page jumps.

Happy to test this to find out.

[Izkata]

If it does an index scan on the secondary index, unless it's an index-only scan it'll still have to jump around to different pages on the clustered index, so it can't really take advantage of the disk cache unless the whole thing is cached. Or if there's a high correlation between the secondary index's order and clustered index's order, which is what the postgres CLUSTER command does.