From: Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Marc Howard Zuckman <marc@fallon.classyad.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@hub.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] Functional Indexes
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:56:12 +0000
Message-ID: <36BF091C.4D06527B@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
References: <13890.918443915@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> > I don't think lower is defined for varchar arguments.
> Note to hackers: is there a good reason why indexes are more
> restrictive? Offhand it seems like the same physical-equivalence
> trick could be applied.
Well, we should have a combination of "binary compatible" and type
coersion to make this fly, just as we have in other places for v6.4. I
didn't realize this index code was there, so never looked at it.
If someone else doesn't get to it, I'll try to look at it before or
during 6.5beta...
- Tom
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