Re: UNIQUE null treatment option

From: Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UNIQUE null treatment option
Date: 2022-01-13 19:01:49
Message-ID: CALT9ZEGAi4Sn_qvCVrdYAtZA=9uwAOXv2ft9R-iBJ2abRS7uew@mail.gmail.com
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>
> I wonder if the logic for setting BTScanInsertData.anynullkeys inside
> _bt_mkscankey() is the place to put your test for
> rel->rd_index->indnullsnotdistinct -- not inside _bt_doinsert(). That
> would probably necessitate renaming anynullkeys, but that's okay. This
> feels more natural to me because a NULL key column in a NULLS NOT
> DISTINCT unique constraint is very similar to a NULL non-key column in
> an INCLUDE index, as far as our requirements go -- and so both cases
> should probably be dealt with at the same point.
>

A good point, indeed!

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Best regards,
Pavel Borisov

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