Re: AW: pg_index.indislossy - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: AW: pg_index.indislossy
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In response to AW: pg_index.indislossy  (Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>)
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> > Yea, there is actually some code attached to this vs. the others that
> > had no code at all.  Are we ever going to do partial indexes?  I guess
> > that is the question.
> The idea is very very good, and since there is an exaple implementation in
> pg 4 it should probably be possible to reimplement. (DB2 has this feature also)
...
> Imho it would be a shame to give up that idea so easily.

Agreed. Another common example is to create an index on all non-null
values of a column.
                   - Thomas


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