Re: index question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: index question
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Msg-id 200310280154.h9S1sMW25612@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to index question  ("Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com>)
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Rick Gigger wrote:
> I have heard that postgres will not use an index unless the
> field has a not null constraint on it.  Is that true?

To be specific, we do not do index NULL values in a column, but we
easily index non-null values in the column.

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