Re: GIN, partial matches, lossy bitmaps

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GIN, partial matches, lossy bitmaps
Date: 2009-03-13 12:25:30
Message-ID: 25428.1236947130@sss.pgh.pa.us
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> writes:
> I'm also wonder if we're on the right way, since the only serious
> issue with indexscan was possible problem with slaves, but read-only slaves
> delayed to 8.5, so this is not an issue now. In 8.5 development cycle we'll
> certainly return to this issue, so why do we disable index scan for 8.4 ?

So that we have a trouble-free feature in 8.4. I have no confidence
in the solution that was proposed, and am more than willing to accept
the loss of plain-indexscan support to avoid the risk of worse bugs.

regards, tom lane

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Kev 2009-03-13 13:19:42 plpgsql debugger (pldbg) absent from 8.4?
Previous Message Oleg Bartunov 2009-03-13 11:56:18 Re: GIN, partial matches, lossy bitmaps