Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It sucks that patches are posted and no action is taken on them for > months. I agree with that.
This particular patch was originally posted during the 8.1 feature freeze window (2005-09-29), so it was doomed to a certain amount of languishing on the to-worry-about-later list in any case. We should have gotten around to reviewing it sooner than we did (the followup discussion was around 2006-06-14), but there was still plenty of time at that point to rework it per the discussion and get it into 8.2. As I see it, we've effectively got a patch that was rejected once, and Bruce wants to apply it anyway because no replacement has been forthcoming. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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