| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christopher Petrilli <petrilli(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Jussi(dot)Mikkola(at)bonware(dot)com" <jussi(dot)mikkola(at)bonware(dot)com>, aspire420(at)hotpop(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, in(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL giving jitters to Skypak |
| Date: | 2004-08-25 01:09:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200408241809.42930.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Chris,
> I've always wondered... is there some reason we don't do "type
> promotion" to match indices? So if someone provides an int, and a
> bigint index exists, it should be used automatically, as they're
> interchangable (i.e. int is a subset of bigint).
Because it's actually more difficult that it sounds.
However, we *have* made changes to 8.0 to make it better at selecting
appropriate types for constants when and index exists.
--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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