Re: PostgreSQL giving jitters to Skypak - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: PostgreSQL giving jitters to Skypak
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Msg-id 20040824223143.W68447@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL giving jitters to Skypak  (Christopher Petrilli <petrilli@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Christopher Petrilli wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:11:13 -0300 (ADT), Marc G. Fournier
> <scrappy@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Jussi.Mikkola@bonware.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> I think it would be a good idea to check how they are using indexes, and what
>>> the structure of the database is. Missing an index or two can affect quite
>>> much.
>>
>> As I'm experiencing with a client right now ... schema hurts alot too ...
>> all of their queries are bigint = int, so they are having to go through
>> their code and changing it to bigint = int::bigint so that indices are
>> being used properly ...
>
> I've always wondered... is there some reason we don't do "type
> promotion" to match indices? So if someone provides an int, and a
> bigint index exists, it should be used automatically, as they're
> interchangable (i.e. int is a subset of bigint).

This is fixed (or, partially addressed) in 8.0 ...


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