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Re: Allow GiST opcalsses without compress\decompres functions

Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>

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From: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
To: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Dmitriy Sarafannikov <dsarafannikov@yandex.ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-09-15T12:53:09Z
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
wrote:

> > 14 сент. 2017 г., в 18:42, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
> написал(а):
> > It would be good if someone would write patch for removing useless
> compress/decompress methods from builtin and contrib GiST opclasses.
> Especially when it gives benefit in IndexOnlyScan enabling.
> If the patch will be accepted, I'll either do this myself for commitfest
> at November or charge some students from Yandex Data School to do this
> (they earn some points in algorithms course for contributing to OSS).
>

Great!  I'm looking forward see their patches on commitfest!

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

Commits

  1. Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.

  2. Remove no-op GiST support functions in the core GiST opclasses.