Re: BUG #5705: btree_gist: Index on inet changes query result

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 18:22 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> Well, actually the btree_gist implementation for inet is a completely
> >> broken piece of junk: it thinks that convert_network_to_scalar is 100%
> >> trustworthy and can be used as a substitute for the real comparison
> >> functions, which isn't even approximately true.
>
> > Are you planning to fix this?
>
> No. I don't understand why Teodor did it like that, so I'm not going
> to try to change it. I'd be willing to take responsibility for ripping
> out btree_gist's inet support altogether ...
>
> regards, tom lane

That is the reason why I just reported it instead of trying to fix it
myself first. Since I could not understand why it was done like that, I
did not feel like fixing it.

Best regards,
Andreas Karlsson