Re: [HACKERS] Indexes bug - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Indexes bug
Date
Msg-id 199808111835.OAA24689@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to RE: [HACKERS] Indexes bug  ("Jackson, DeJuan" <djackson@cpsgroup.com>)
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> > I think we now know what is happening in the current cvs tree.  The
> > optimizer calls op_class to find if there is an pg_opam entry for the
> > expression (int4eq), the current index access type(btree), and the
> > current index op class(int4_ops).
> >
> > In the case of oideqint4, there is no pg_amop to match it, and we
> > can't
> > add extra rows to pg_amop to make it work.  I suppose we could try
> > adding a amopopr_compat column to pg_amop, and somehow do a lookup on
> > that if the first one does not match.  Because of the way the system
> > caches are structured, we would need a new cache for that extra
> > column,
> > I think.  There must be a better way.
> >
> Maybe I missed it but why can't we add the extra row to pg_amop.

Not sure.  Each access method has a predefined number of rows for that
access type.  I will check on why it fails.  For example, btree has five
rows.  hash has fewer.

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