On Nov 24, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Marcus Engene wrote:
There is one other case where I personally find nullable
columns a good thing: process_me ish flags. When a row
is not supposed to be processed that field is null and
when a field is null it wont be in the index [at least
on Oracle].

Actually, that's abuse of NULL. NULL is supposed to mean "I don't know".

In any case, like Oracle, PostgreSQL does not index NULL values (at least not in btree).
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Jim Nasby                                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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