</para>
</note>
+ <note>
+ <title>Note</title>
+ <para>
+ Partial indices are not currently supported by
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, but they were once supported
+ by its predecessor <productname>Postgres</productname>, and much
+ of the code is still there. We hope to revive support for this
+ feature someday.
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
<para>
A <firstterm>partial index</firstterm>
is an index built over a subset of a table; the subset is defined by