Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>>>> What is the status of partial indices?
>>
>> They've been diked out of gram.y's syntax for CREATE INDEX at least
>> since Postgres95. No way to tell who did that, why or when, AFAIK.
>> There is still an awful lot of support code for them, however.
> It may have been me. Not sure. At the time, no one was sure what they
> did, or if we even wanted them. They were broken, I think.
Wasn't you unless you were hacking the code before it entered our CVS
system. I checked the oldest CVS version (Postgres95 release) and saw
that partial indexes were disabled in gram.y in that version.
regards, tom lane