Re: GIN vs. Partial Indexes

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Subject: Re: GIN vs. Partial Indexes
Date: 2010-10-23 19:01:21
Message-ID: 4CC33101.1000205@agliodbs.com
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On 10/08/2010 02:44 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> In any case, I would expect that GIN could actually do this quite
>> efficiently. What we'd probably want is a concept of a "null word",
>> with empty indexable rows entered in the index as if they contained the
>> null word. So there'd be just one index entry with a posting list of
>> however many such rows there are.

So, given the lack of objections to this idea, do we have a plan for
fixing GIN?

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-- Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://www.pgexperts.com

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