Re: [GENERAL] Limitation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Limitation
Date
Msg-id 199906241539.LAA16922@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Limitation  ("John Huttley" <john@mwk.co.nz>)
Responses RE: [GENERAL] Limitation  ("Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>)
Re: [GENERAL] Limitation  (Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>)
List pgsql-general
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> I've been attempting to port applications from Pervasive SQL to PG.
> Pervasive is interesting because it runs on top of btrieve. This allow
> legacy apps
> and SQL systems to co-exist. It's quirky and buggy, but it's better than PG
> because it can do the following.
>
>
> 1.  Have more than 7 fields on a btree index

We have never understood why someone would want an index with more than
seven columns.

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