Re: knngist - 0.8

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Date: 2010-12-26T19:41:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hitoshi Harada <umi.tanuki@gmail.com> writes:
> Catching up tonight, I wonder I could propose to add ordering
> operators in btree, not in gist, for basic types.

I thought about that for a bit while working on the knngist patch, but
couldn't really see any useful application.  In particular, I don't see
a way to shoehorn + and - in there as ordering operators.  They don't
match the structure.  The RANGE problem wants to add operators that are
somehow related to a btree's operators, but they're not related in the
way that knngist uses.

			regards, tom lane