Re: CLUSTER loses nulls (was Re: [ADMIN] Still a bug in the VACUUM)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: CLUSTER loses nulls (was Re: [ADMIN] Still a bug in the VACUUM)
Date: 2003-03-03 03:42:27
Message-ID: 28468.1046662947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> * Make CLUSTER error out if the target index is not of an 'amindexnulls'
>> index AM. This would amount to restricting CLUSTER to b-trees, which is
>> annoying.

> I think this solution is fine - we just need to fix GiST to index nulls
> one day :)

Yeah, I think this is the appropriate stopgap for 7.3.* in any case.
If someone wants to improve it later, fine...

regards, tom lane

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