On 7/11/06, Nando Dessena <nando@...> wrote:

> OTOH, Firebird is about the only top-level RDBMS that doesn't feature
> different types of indexes for different purposes. I don't think there
> can be a definitive word whether this is good or bad, but I can say
> that I don't think that a special type of index, only useful for
> uniqueness and exact matches on large objects, would be a heresy in

So perhaps another possibilty is to implement generic hash-based index type,
and then allow to use it, among other things, for indexing large text objects.

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