Re: Cross-datatype Comparisons and Indexes

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: "Thomas F(dot)O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Cross-datatype Comparisons and Indexes
Date: 2004-08-20 21:00:07
Message-ID: 20040820210007.GB32559@wolff.to
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 16:41:40 -0400,
"Thomas F.O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com> wrote:
> Since the current stable version of postgres (7.4.x) doesn't allow
> cross-datatype comparisons of indexes, is it always necessary to cast
> my application data explicitly in order for an index to be used, even
> among the integer types?

Yes.

This will work better in 8.0.

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