On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007@gmail.com> wrote:
I definitely think thick indexes were too ambitious of a target for a first time patch. Sequential index scans is very ambitious itself despite being significantly simpler (if you have a solution which works -- we haven't had one thus far).
The point, i am trying to bring out is that i want to work with one of the senior persons of the community to do my first few patches.
Can you point me to the thread on "trailing nulls"? I think trimming off any null columns from the ends of tuples when forming them should be a cheap and easy optimization which just nobody's gotten around to doing. If that's what you mean then I'm surprised you had any trouble getting buy-in for it.