Re: Brain dump: btree collapsing

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Brain dump: btree collapsing
Date: 2003-02-28 17:57:27
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0302281053420.20805-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> How about working on hash indexes? They have several problems at the moment
> that make them unusable:
> [SNIP]
> Since you already have experience in the postgres indexing arena, you could
> transfer your skills to this new index method easily?
> [SNIP]
> Also, how about looking at the fact that you cannot store constants in
> functional indexes?

both of these would be most useful. I'd vote for hash indexes first, but
not being able to use constants in functional indexes is a giant pain as
well.

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