Note that a bitmap scan or multi-pass indexscan (OR clause scan) has NIL pathkeys since we can say nothing about the overall order of its result.
It's seems to me that multi-pass indexscan was removed after introducing bitmapscan. -- Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.sigaev.ru/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match