Re: Is indexing broken for bigint columns?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is indexing broken for bigint columns?
Date: 2004-02-25 00:38:31
Message-ID: 200402250138.31312.peter_e@gmx.net
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Dann Corbit wrote:
> > Dann Corbit wrote:
> > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/smith20010821.php3?page=3
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datatype.html#DATATYPE-INT
>
> PostgreSQL is the only database that requires casts to do an index
> lookup.

This issue has been discussed on these mailing lists literally dozens of
times. If you're interested in the details, please see the archives.
Further discussion will hopefully not be necessary, because 7.5 will
fix it.

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