Re: [PATCHES] GIN improvements

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-01-19T18:00:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>> I didn't change a recognition of fillfactor value, although GIN doesn't 
>> use it for now.

> I suggest you take StdRdOptions out of the GinOptions struct, and leave
> fillfactor out of ginoptions.  I don't think there's much point in
> supporting options that don't actually do anything.  If the user tries
> to set fillfactor for a gin index, he will get an error.  Which is a
> good thing IMHO.

+1 ... appearing to accept an option that doesn't really do anything is
likely to confuse users.  We didn't have much choice in the previous
incarnation of reloptions, but I think now we should throw errors when
we can.

			regards, tom lane