Re: Partial indices

Added to TODO:

    * Re-enable partial indexes

> Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> >> Are Partial Indices still supported into latest release of PostgreSQL?
>
> > I think they have suffered some serious bit-rot over the years
> > and are no longer functional, although some of the core code
> > still exists in the backend.
>
> Actually, quite a LOT of partial-index support code still exists in the
> backend.  Someone removed support for the "WHERE predicate" clause of
> CREATE INDEX from the grammar, but I don't know when or why that was
> done.  AFAICT everything is still there to support the feature
> downstream, and it doesn't look particularly bit-rotted.
>
> Someday when we don't have any more-pressing problems, I'd like to try
> to re-enable that support.  At the very least I might learn why it
> was disabled ;-)
>
> (Hey Bruce, do we have a TODO item for "Fix partial indices"?)
>
>             regards, tom lane
>


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