Re: index support for arrays (GiST)

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Cc: selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM, "'pgsql-hackers '" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-15T15:47:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general
> It looks like other people just didn't use index decompression function
> (at least in Gene's code decompression function just do return  ) and
> that's why this bug was not discovered. We could make a patch for
> upcoming 7.1 if hackers desired. I consider this patch as a bugfix
> not a new feature or improvement. We got a very promising results.

Yes, send patches! Thanks to you and Gene for getting GiST back into
view; it seems like a great feature which was neglected for too long.

                       - Thomas