Re: Index not used with IS NULL

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index not used with IS NULL
Date: 2003-02-18 01:48:50
Message-ID: 878ywefjel.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>
> I would have thought that the other index type supported null anyway, for
> the purposes of uniqueness checks.

Well, rtree indexes are used for boxes, which don't even have a useful =
operators anyways... Unique indexes on them wouldn't work very well.

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greg

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