| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_index.indislossy |
| Date: | 2001-05-14 23:25:23 |
| Message-ID: | 200105142325.f4ENPNZ22216@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > > I think that at least the GIST intarray (actually intset) methods use
> > > it.
> > >
> > > So you probably should _not_ remove it ;)
> >
> > I did a search and found it used only a few places. I do not see it
> > used as part of GIST. My rememberance is that it is involved in partial
> > indexes, where you index only certain values in a column. It was an old
> > idea that was never working in PostgreSQL.
>
> Let's avoid removing things for the sake of removing them ... might be an
> old idea that, if someone takes the time to research, might prove useful
> ...
Yea, there is actually some code attached to this vs. the others that
had no code at all. Are we ever going to do partial indexes? I guess
that is the question.
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