Luke Lonergan wrote: > Mark, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:26 PM > > > > But irrefutable? Irrefutable is not true. :-) > > How about unrefuted. The evidence has not been refuted, and not > directly discussed or discounted. > > BTREE can not be optimized to produce the results we've presented, the > discussion about char(n) datatypes was irrelevant as we had shown > results for INT, numeric and char/varchar and they were all dramatically > better than BTREE. > > I am hopeful this discussion takes a rapid turn toward the quantitative > assessment of the results.
Right. People need a patch to test on their workloads, and analysis can be done after feature freeze. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match