Re: BUG #6232: hstore operator ? no longer uses indexes - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: BUG #6232: hstore operator ? no longer uses indexes
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Msg-id 1317266569.18190.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: BUG #6232: hstore operator ? no longer uses indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: BUG #6232: hstore operator ? no longer uses indexes  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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On ons, 2011-09-28 at 22:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Pierre Ducroquet" <p.psql@pinaraf.info> writes:
> > [ the "hstore ? text" operator no longer matches an hstore GIST index ]
>
> Hmm ... this doesn't seem to be specific to either hstore or GIST; it's
> a collation problem.  The index is marked as having no collation, which
> is reasonable since hstore is a collation-less type.  However, the ?
> OpExpr gets marked as having "default" collation because it has one
> collatable input, namely the text constant.  And then,
> match_clause_to_indexcol decides the clause doesn't match the index.
>
> Not sure what to do about this.  Is it okay to suppose that collation
> can be ignored when matching to a collation-less index?

That sounds correct on first reading.

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