Re: AW: pg_index.indislossy

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
To: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
Cc: "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: pg_index.indislossy
Date: 2001-05-15 12:40:51
Message-ID: 3B0123D3.D89E01@alumni.caltech.edu
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> > 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.
> The idea is very very good, and since there is an exaple implementation in
> pg 4 it should probably be possible to reimplement. (DB2 has this feature also)
...
> Imho it would be a shame to give up that idea so easily.

Agreed. Another common example is to create an index on all non-null
values of a column.

- Thomas

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