On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:

>
> On 13 Dec 2016, at 3:53pm, Paul Egli <e...@sourcegear.com> wrote:
>
> > Well if i am missing something, i still cannot see it.
> >
> > Based on these quotes in the docs, i assume that a NULL in the child
> table
> > means that it does not have a parent.
>
> You are correct.  I missed that.
>
> So yes, the original poster was correct, and using an index which left out
> the NULL key values would lead to the right results.  Should be possible to
> use that for an optimization case.  I suppose it might lead to quite a
> saving in filespace for some tables.
>


Great. Just to clarify, SQLite will already use "alternateChildIndex1" from
the example? Or just that it would be possible as an enhancement request?

Thanks.
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