Re: Attempt at work around of int4 query won't touch int8 index ...

From: Paul Thomas <paul(at)tmsl(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "pgsql-performance (at) postgresql (dot) org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Attempt at work around of int4 query won't touch int8 index ...
Date: 2003-09-16 07:44:48
Message-ID: 20030916084448.A24702@bacon
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On 15/09/2003 08:42 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> Is it possible to follow data type upgrade model in planner? Something
> like in
> C/C++ where data types are promoted upwards to find out better plan?
>
> int2->int4->int8->float4->float8 types.
>
> That could be a clean solution..
>
> just a thought..
>

Interestingly, float8 indexes do work OK (float8col = 99). I spend a large
part of yesterday grepping through the sources to try and find out why
this should be so. No luck so far but I'm going to keep on trying!

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