Re: int8 primary keys still not using index without manual

Tom Lane wrote:

> Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Th big picture is that it doesn't work very well to assume that indexes
>>> only need to handle same-datatype comparisons.  I think we are
>>> ultimately going to have to address that issue more-or-less directly.
>
>> Wouldn't that logically lead to an "abstract" operator class to be
>> pointed to in the original indexes operator class?
>
> I've just posted a proposal in pgsql-hackers that attacks the problem
> a little differently: put the cross-type operators directly into the
> opclass.

I like that approach even better than mine. It needs less work during
the actual planning.


Jan

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