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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: varchar does not work too well with IS NOT NULL partial indexes.
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Msg-id 12868.1185297789@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to varchar does not work too well with IS NOT NULL partial indexes.  ("Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42@gmail.com>)
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"Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42@gmail.com> writes:
> Basically it looks like planner makes better use of
> WHERE ... IS NOT NULL indexes if either you explicitly
> put "text" as a column type or that you cast the column
> to ::text when making index.

I've applied a patch for this.

            regards, tom lane

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