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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas F. O'Connell <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FAQ -- Index usage/speed
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:28:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> > Bruce,
> >
> >> However, with this fixed in 8.0, it probably isn't worth adding to the
> >> FAQ.
> >
> > I'd disagree.  We can expect people to be using 7.3 and 7.4 for 2 years 
> > yet.
> 
> Have to agree ... I'm still supporting clients using 7.2 ...

OK, added to FAQ:

    <P>In pre-8.0 releases, indexes often can not be used unless the data
    types exactly match the index's column types.  This is particularly
    true of int2, int8, and numeric column indexes.</P>

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