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From: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: jian he <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: using index to speedup add not null constraints to a table
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:20:14 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACJufxFae2f=_egVwGGvGFHMTU=Pu7Akb-e_JMEsUCsHRT75Jw@mail.gmail.com>

On 2026-Jan-16, jian he wrote:

> In this case, scanning the t3_copy_idx index to check these four NOT NULL
> constraints is actually slower than a full table scan.
> 
> Therefore, I further restricted the use of the index-scan mechanism for fast NOT
> NULL verification to scenarios where the attribute being checked is the leading
> column of the index.

Makes sense.

> I have not yet addressed all of your other comments, as this
> represents a more of a
> major change. Therefore, I am submitting the attached patch first.

OK, this means we're still waiting then.

Please do see my v8 patch.  It contained other cleanups as well.

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