From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: 8.1 release notes |
Date: | 2005-08-23 14:53:47 |
Message-ID: | 200508231453.j7NErlW05003@candle.pha.pa.us |
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OK, updated. When I read "migrate" I thought "move".
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at> writes:
> > These I don't really understand:
> > - Improve rtree index capabilities and performance (Neil)
> > - Replace rtree index code with code from /contrib/rtree_gist (Tom)
>
> Not sure how Bruce got the latter out of this commit message:
>
> Migrate rtree_gist functionality into the core system, and add some
> basic regression tests for GiST to the standard regression tests.
>
> All that's really happened is that GiST actually has a couple of
> opclasses in the core system now, whereas previously they were all
> contrib (meaning that GiST was dead weight in a standard installation).
>
> It's also now true that everything you can do with the standard rtree
> opclasses, you can do with standard GiST opclasses.
>
> There was some talk of obsoleting rtree further down the road, but it
> isn't happening in 8.1. If no serious bugs crop up in all the new GiST
> work Teodor and Oleg did, we might consider obsoleting rtree in 8.2.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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