GiST certainly use it ! Please don't remove.
GiST uses compression/decompression technique which could
produce false drops.
Oleg
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Can someone tell me what we use indislossy for? The only comment I
> could find was:
>
> /*
> * WITH clause reinstated to handle lossy indices. -- JMH, 7/22/96
> */
> foreach(pl, parameterList)
> {
> DefElem *param = (DefElem *) lfirst(pl);
>
> if (!strcasecmp(param->defname, "islossy"))
> lossy = true;
> else
> elog(NOTICE, "Unrecognized index attribute \"%s\" ignored",
> param->defname);
> }
>
> and
>
> bool indislossy; /* do we fetch false tuples (lossy
> * compression)? */
>
> Should I remove this column?
>
>
>
Regards, Oleg
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