Re: Indexes on Nulls

2001-04-17 Thread Heikki Tuuri
Dennis, Innobase (= InnoDB starting from version 3.23.37) allows you to have an index on a column which may contain nulls. However, the ANSI SQL specification requires that the columns in a primary key are declared as not null. If your main key may can contain nulls, do not define a primary key a

Re: Indexes on Nulls

2001-04-16 Thread Vivek Khera
> "DG" == Dennis Gearon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DG> Is it true no indexing on Nulls In the Innobase database tables and DG> MyIASM DG> tables? Dunnow about Innobase tables, but MyISAM tables let you have indexes on nullable columns. ISAM did not. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Indexes on Nulls

2001-04-16 Thread Dennis Gearon
Is it true no indexing on Nulls In the Innobase database tables and MyIASM tables? - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To requ