On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Neil Conway wrote:

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.
>
> - <para>
> -  The current implementation of <acronym>GiST</acronym> within
> -  <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has some major limitations:
> -  <acronym>GiST</acronym> index access is not concurrent, and the
> -  <acronym>GiST</acronym> interface doesn't allow the development of certain
> -  data types, such as digital trees (see papers by Aoki et al).
> - </para>
>
> AFAIK the GiST modifications suggested Aoki have not yet been implemented, so 
> this should not have been removed.

yes, this is the next step of our work on GiST. Call for support :)

>
> -Neil
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