Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> - <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.
>
> I thought that was an extremely vague limitation and could easily be
> removed... It's like having a limitations section on btrees and have
> mentioning in passing that it can't do full text indexing or something.

ok, it's sort of TODO

>
> Chris
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