Is it possible to join/merge two indexes? Merging different indexes of the same kind for general search, but also keeping the single indexes

[amaster507 (Anthony Master)]

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I have read in detail your other latest blog post: It was so mesmerizing. Your engineering mind is exceptional!! The optimization improvements are terrific for a database that already touts ingestion speeds keeping up with major databases. And then I saw the type problem, and you confirmed the problem with indexes. So, what if, types weren’t indexes, they were edges?? I can hear Chewxy correcting me already, that everything is already an edge, it is turtles all the way do…

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Correct, uid is reserved but not id. Curious on how you will be testing 21.12 I figure an export/import. And then I wonder that since the differing nodes are identical if it is not an overflow problem somewhere. I really wish someone from the @core-devs would chime in here. This is above my pay grade (sarcastic idiom). What I would like to know is: Is there any difference in storage on disk for the dgraph.type predicate vs any other predicate? Since this type(Foo) function is equivalent to a…

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@Juri

But doing if to check every value if it is a restaurant, is more slowly, than having 3 indexes? because checking something through indexes is faster than checking it through filters/if-checks ? or not?

Maybe I didn’t explain it good enough, but I am getting done for the night, I’ve wasted too many hours tonight on Dgraph.

Doing the IF check with a single index (would be better with an edge ^^^ maybe ?) is the only way to do it because it is illogical to build an index across three types that may no coexist.