Re: Mention of PG 14 in docs

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-05-04T00:10:24Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
On Mon, May  3, 2021 at 07:49:14PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> In patch "Handle equality operator in contrib/pg_trgm" (935f66665), I
> see this text:
> 
> -->	<literal>~</literal> and <literal>~*</literal> queries.  Beginning in
> -->	<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 14, these indexes also support
> 	equality operator (simple comparison operators are not supported).
> 	Note that those indexes may not be as efficient as regular B-tree indexes
> 	for equality operator.
> 
> As far as I know, we don't usually mention what version _added_ a
> feature like this.  I suggest the PG 14 mention be removed.

Also, what does "simple comparison operators are not supported" mean?

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Commits

  1. Remove mention of the version number from pg_trgm docs