[patches] [schema 1/1] Allow to do not specify tail nullable index columns

[Konstantin Osipov]

* Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev at gmail.com> [18/01/25 17:45]:
> To tell the truth, I'm not quite convinced of the usefulness of this
> feature - I simply fail to see a proper use case for it - but then again
> I don't use Tarantool and so can't be impartial. I guess we should
> question our users whether they need it and what for.
> 
> Anyway, I see that this patch touches some hot paths so IMO the first
> thing we should do is run some tests (cbench?) to check if there's a
> performance degradation after it is applied.
> 
> Apart from potential performance issues and somewhat intricate
> definition of indexed field constraints, I currently don't see
> any pitfalls this feature can introduce.

If we take it in, would it be a pain to maintain?


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