Re: btree_gist (was: CommitFest progress - or lack thereof)
From:
Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
To:
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc:
Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>,
Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>,
Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>,
Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject:
Re: btree_gist (was: CommitFest progress - or lack thereof)
Oops, thank for remind !
Oleg
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)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
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