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Re: NULL's support in SP-GiST

Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Cc: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-02-28T22:20:55Z
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On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> attached patch introduces NULLs indexing for SP-GiST. With this patch
> Sp-GiST supports IS NULL, IS NOT NULL clauses, as well as full index scan.
>

I was looking at this.
It passes all regression tests, and seems to work fine.

What i don't like about it is that spgnull.c actually call GIN
functions and even uses GIN flags. Don't know how bad it is, but IMO
there is a module violation here.

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