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 _____________________________________________________________ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83