Re: Clarity in partial index example.

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: droptablestar(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Clarity in partial index example.
Date: 2019-04-03 22:31:47
Message-ID: 99a710f1-92e2-e5c7-52ae-a1d61cfacd30@postgresql.org
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On 4/3/19 6:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> On 4/3/19 4:20 PM, PG Doc comments form wrote:
>>> Maybe I am misunderstanding the concept here but url = '/index.html' doesn't
>>> have any effect on this? If that's the case I would suggest either removing
>>> it from the first query or adding it to the second query.
>
>> You're correct, the url = '/index.html' does not affect if the partial
>> index is used in the example.
>
>> Based on how the example is set up, I'd propose using the "url"
>> parameter in both examples. I've attached a patch that does this, with
>> some additional wording around the examples.
>
> Yeah, this seems unnecessarily confusing. I tweaked your extra wording
> a bit --- I didn't like referring to the index as covering a range,
> because it's really excluding a range not including one.

You're right, that makes sense.

> Pushed.

Thanks!

Jonathan

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