Re: Incorrect behaviour when using a GiST index on points

Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2012-06-21T18:53:43Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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gistproc_fix.patch (application/octet-stream) patch

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>wrote:

> Attached patch fixes GiST behaviour without altering operators behaviour.
>

I think we definitely should apply this patch before 9.2 release, because
it is a bug fix. Otherwise people will continue produce incorrect GiST
indexes with in-core geometrical opclasses until 9.3. Patch is very simple
and only changes few lines of code.

Any thoughts?

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With best regards,
Alexander Korotkov.