Re: NULL's support in SP-GiST

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <jaime@2ndquadrant.com>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-07T21:03:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I guess the question is whether this is a stop-ship item for spgist.
> If it is, then we're going to have to spend the time to fix this, but
> if not, then since it was submitted more than two weeks after the
> start of the CommitFest, it seems we should postpone it to 9.3.

If we buy into the assumption that nulls support can/should be bolted on
after the fact, then postponing it to 9.3 would be reasonable.  I wasn't
very happy with that idea though, and would like to look at this issue
before 9.2 gets frozen.  So please don't pull it from the CF yet.

			regards, tom lane