On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > I think his point is that they _should_ be equivalent. Surely there's > > > something in the optimiser that discards '=true' stuff, like 'a=a' > should be > > > discarded? > > > > I figure that's what he meant, but it isn't what was said. ;) > > > > "col" isn't of the general form "indexkey op constant" or "constant op > > indexkey" which I presume it's looking for given the comments in > > indxpath.c. I'm not sure what the best way to make it work would be given > > that presumably we'd want to make col IS TRUE/FALSE use an index at the > > same time (since that appears to not do so as well). > > Not that I see the point of indexing booleans, but hey :)
also, in reference to my last message, even if the % was 50/50, if the table was such that the bool was in a table next to a text field with 20k or text in it, an index on the bool would be much faster to go through than to seq scan the table. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])