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Re: "GIN and GiST Index Types" page is about usage in full text search, but looks general purpose

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: piotrowski@prisma.io, Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-04-12T19:53:23Z
Lists: pgsql-docs 
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:49 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I think we should take the index type names out of the section title
> entirely, and name it something generic like "Preferred Index Types for
> Full Text Search".

Agreed.

> After the recent changes discussed on the -www list, it's possible
> that Google will eventually stop indexing the 9.1 page altogether,
> but I'm not holding my breath.

There is always the extreme option of excluding older versions in
robots.txt. I bet that would work. Do you see any downside with that
solution, Jonathan?

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Peter Geoghegan

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