Re: btree_gist (was: CommitFest progress - or lack thereof)

Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

From: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Date: 2011-02-12T21:50:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Oops, thank for remind !

Oleg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Tom Lane wrote:

> Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
>> btree_gist is essentially required for exclusion constraints to be
>> useful in a practical way.
>
>> In fact, can you submit it for the next commitfest to be included in
>> core? That would allow range types and exclusion constraints to be used
>> out-of-the-box in 9.2.
>
>> Only if you think it's reasonable to put it in core, of course. If
>> extensions are easy enough to install, maybe that's not really
>> necessary.
>
> btree_gist is entirely unready to be included in core.
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2010-10/msg00104.php
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
>

 	Regards,
 		Oleg
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