Re: index doesn't work for null?

Per-Olof Pettersson <pgsql@peope.net>

From: Per-Olof Pettersson <pgsql@peope.net>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-05-15T23:45:26Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hi Alex

I have no idea if it is a known issue.
Though "field=null" is not allowed in standard SQL.
The correct statement should be "select from xx where field IS NULL;".

Perhaps it will be handled better (or not).

Best regards
Per-Olof Pettersson

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 2001-05-16, 00:21:34, alex@pilosoft.com (Alex Pilosov) wrote regarding 
index doesn't work for null?:


> I have a bit of a problem:

> 'select from xx where field=null' will always result in seq scan even 
when
> there's a [btree] index on the field.

> Is this a known issue?

> -alex


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