Re: Review: B-Tree emulation for GIN

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Review: B-Tree emulation for GIN
Date: 2009-01-19 18:54:25
Message-ID: 1232391265.9065.5.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com
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On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:41 +0300, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
> > And how does GIN handle SQL NULL values in the column? Does it index
> > them at all, or just ignore them?
> SQL NULL: GIN doesn't support it (amindexnulls/amsearchnulls == false)
> C NULL: NULL-numeric could be returned only by gin_extract_query_numeric which
> cannot be called by user directly because of internal type of argument.
> GIN doesn't do anything with values returned by gin_extract_query_numeric except
> providing they as an argument for comparing functions.

Ok, I understand now. I will look at this later.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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