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Re: Re: AW: Re: GiST for 7.1 !!

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: lockhart@fourpalms.org, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-01-12T16:29:29Z
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> An optional test is like no test at all.  No one runs optional tests.  If
> the test is supposed to work then it should be mainstream.  If the test
> might not work then you better go back and figure out what you're testing.
> If the test might not *compile* (which is probably the more severe problem
> that people are concerned about) then this idea won't help that at all
> unless you want to rework the regression test driver framework as well.

I agree completely. This is just a transition phase to get GiST into the
mainstream.

                   - Thomas