| From: | Paul Thomas <paul(at)tmsl(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> | 
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| 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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