>> Urgh ... that means GiST indexing is actually broken, because GiST >> currently handles multicolumns but not nulls.
Actually, it appears that 7.2 GiST does handle NULLs in columns after the first one, which I think is enough to avoid the problem Jan mentioned. The boolean column pg_am.amindexnulls is not really sufficient to describe this behavior accurately. Looking at current uses it seems correct to leave it set FALSE for GiST. In short: false alarm; the 7.2 code is okay as-is, at least on this particular point. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])