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Re: Fixing the btree_gist inet mess

Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> — 2025-12-18T11:31:39Z

On 18/12/2025 13:15, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 01/08/2025 21:17, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's past time to move this problem along and try to get out of the
>> business of encouraging use of known-broken code.  I propose that
>> for v19, we should flip the opcdefault status so that network_ops is
>> marked default and the btree_gist opclasses are not.  This will be
>> enough to ensure that network_ops is used unless the user explicitly
>> specifies to do differently.
> 
> +1
> 
> Bunch of ideas and opinions below, but I'm fine with your plan as is too:

Sorry, I was confused by my emails and replied to this old email 
ignoring the later discussion. But I think all I said is still valid, 
and some of it was already mentioned.

- Heikki