AW: handling NULLS in GiST - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: handling NULLS in GiST
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Msg-id 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA687963368388@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> we noticed you changed gist.c to handle NULLS. It seems there is
> problem with your changes.
....
> I remind we have choosen to leave NULLs because vacuum complained about
> different number of tuples in heap and index and all our opclasses work
> correctly with NULLs. Did you change vacuum code so it will not complain ?

If the opclasses handle NULLs, then they should be in the index.
Leaving them out would imho be better handled with the partial index code.

Andreas


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