Re: indexes spanning multiple tables

From: Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin(at)pobox(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: indexes spanning multiple tables
Date: 2005-08-23 04:54:25
Message-ID: 20050823045425.GK17258@always.joy.eth.net
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:01:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin(at)pobox(dot)com> writes:
> > Is anybody working on allowing indexes to span multiple tables?
> > IF not, I'll give it a try.
>
> Wouldn't recommend it as a project for a beginning backend hacker;
> the locking considerations alone are a bit daunting.

OK but since I'm not convinced that I can't succeed, I'm going to
continue working on a patch.

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