Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikov...@gmail.com> writes: > There is a question of support multicolumn index only scans for GIST. > gistcanreturn() can return true if fetch is implemented for all indexed > columns and false otherwise. > But that's not very good case for multicolumn indexes.
> I think, it requires extend the interface to add separate columns checking. > But I can't understand what kind of changes is required > and how would it affect on previous amcanreturn interface. Yeah, rather than just returning a bool, I suppose we need it to return an indication of which index columns it's prepared to return values for. (And then I guess the runtime API should return nulls for index columns it can't handle.) You could probably use either a bitmapset or an integer List to return the column numbers. I wouldn't be too worried about backwards compatibility in changing that API. If there are any people supporting outside-core index AMs, they've got much bigger problems than this. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers