> > Are those two syntaxes eqivalent ?
> >
> > select * from users where monitored;
> > select * from users where monitored=true;
> >
> > If the answer is yes, the optimimer probably doesn't agree with you :)
>
> That depends on the definition of equivalent. They presumably give the
> same answer (I'm assuming monitored is a boolean), but the latter has
> something that's considered an indexable condition and I believe the
> former does not (even with enable_seqscan=off the former syntax
> appears to give a sequence scan, usually a good sign it's not considered
> indexable).
I think his point is that they _should_ be equivalent. Surely there's
something in the optimiser that discards '=true' stuff, like 'a=a' should be
discarded?
Chris