Re: [DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Bruce, > > > >> However, with this fixed in 8.0, it probably isn't worth adding to the > >> FAQ. > > > > I'd disagree. We can expect people to be using 7.3 and 7.4 for 2 years > > yet. > > Have to agree ... I'm still suppor

Re: [DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, However, with this fixed in 8.0, it probably isn't worth adding to the FAQ. I'd disagree. We can expect people to be using 7.3 and 7.4 for 2 years yet. Have to agree ... I'm still supporting clients using 7.2 ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.O

Re: [DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, > However, with this fixed in 8.0, it probably isn't worth adding to the > FAQ. I'd disagree. We can expect people to be using 7.3 and 7.4 for 2 years yet. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---(end of broadcast)--- TI

Re: [DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: > I thought about that, and it seems like the upgrade path from 7.x -> > 8.x is going to be slower than among any of the 7.x releases. 8.0 is > still several months away and it will probably be several months more > before people who are affected by this issue in produc

Re: [DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
I thought about that, and it seems like the upgrade path from 7.x -> 8.x is going to be slower than among any of the 7.x releases. 8.0 is still several months away and it will probably be several months more before people who are affected by this issue in production databases. The other thing I

Re: [DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yes, 4.8 would be the right spot. Not sure why we got so many reports recently though. However, with this fixed in 8.0, it probably isn't worth adding to the FAQ. --- Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: > Bruce, > > Considering th

[DOCS] FAQ -- Index usage/speed

2004-08-31 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
Bruce, Considering the activity on the lists (at least recently and, I think, historically) about postgres not casting (usually integer) constant values across types, could there be a mention of this made in the FAQ? It seems like a logical case for inclusion under 4.8: http://www.postgresql.or