Remove pg_am.amindexnulls? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Remove pg_am.amindexnulls?
Date
Msg-id 20234.1294448918@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Responses Re: Remove pg_am.amindexnulls?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: Remove pg_am.amindexnulls?  (Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>)
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Now that GIN can index null items, its amindexnulls flag in pg_am really
ought to be set true.  However, looking at the usage of that column,
I wonder whether we shouldn't just delete it instead.  The only present
usage is a rather convoluted test in CLUSTER to see if the index is
safely clusterable --- and AFAICS that test has been obsoleted anyhow
by the later addition of pg_am.amclusterable.  Anyone against
simplifying matters by getting rid of pg_am.amindexnulls?
        regards, tom lane


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