Re: NULL's support in SP-GiST - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: NULL's support in SP-GiST
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Msg-id CAJKUy5iq=0i_hQByCxCVBfqdWbkjvanAWndMY7eJh1f074v9gA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to NULL's support in SP-GiST  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
Responses Re: NULL's support in SP-GiST  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> attached patch introduces NULLs indexing for SP-GiST. With this patch
> Sp-GiST supports IS NULL, IS NOT NULL clauses, as well as full index scan.
>

I was looking at this.
It passes all regression tests, and seems to work fine.

What i don't like about it is that spgnull.c actually call GIN
functions and even uses GIN flags. Don't know how bad it is, but IMO
there is a module violation here.

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