Re: costly foreign key ri checks (4)

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: costly foreign key ri checks (4)
Date: 2004-03-13 23:21:32
Message-ID: 200403132321.i2DNLWq21361@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> * I changed the message wording to conform to the message style
> guidelines. I also made it complain about "costly sequential scans"
> instead of "costly cross-type conversion", since ISTM that's what's
> really at issue here. I'm not completely wedded to that wording
> though, if anyone feels the previous version was better.

So the issue wasn't that the conversion was costly, but that an index
couldn't be used to look up the primary key?

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