Re: Performance on inserts

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-10-15T21:52:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>>>> What is the status of partial indices?
>>
>> They've been diked out of gram.y's syntax for CREATE INDEX at least
>> since Postgres95.  No way to tell who did that, why or when, AFAIK.
>> There is still an awful lot of support code for them, however.

> It may have been me.  Not sure.  At the time, no one was sure what they
> did, or if we even wanted them.  They were broken, I think.

Wasn't you unless you were hacking the code before it entered our CVS
system.  I checked the oldest CVS version (Postgres95 release) and saw
that partial indexes were disabled in gram.y in that version.

			regards, tom lane