Re: pg12 release notes

On Fri, 10 May 2019 at 15:45, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> <!--
> Author: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
> 2019-02-20 [e04a3905e] Improve planner's understanding of strictness of type co
> -->
>
> <para>
> Allow IS NOT NULL with mis-matching types to use partial indexes more frequently (Tom Lane)
> </para>
>
> > If so, I think James Coleman should be the author.
>
> ... and yeah, James should get the credit. But there's more wrong with
> the summary than that, because I don't think this was about mismatched
> types particularly. The real motivation was to avoid failing to prove
> the usability of WHERE-x-IS-NOT-NULL partial indexes for IN clauses with
> more than 100 elements.

I think you might be mixing up two items. I'm talking about:

<para>
Allow IN comparisons with arrays to use <literal>IS NOT NULL</literal>
partial indexes more frequently (Tom Lane)
</para>

to which the sgml references 65ce07e02.

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