Request for support for GIST enhancements

I have CC'ed this over to advocacy in hopes that someone will be able to
get support for this work. Please email Oleg if you can financially
assist.

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Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I want to inform that we began to work on concurrency and recovery
> support in GiST on our's own account and hope to be ready before 8.1
> code freeze. There was some noise about possible sponsoring of our work,
> but we didn't get any offering yet, so we're looking for sponsorhip !
>
> We recognize that current GiST doesn't conform to enterprize level and
> our people starting experience difficulties using our extensions in
> production environment. That's why we decided to meet the wishes of
> GiST users not waiting real sponsorship.
>
> Our plan is to implement recovery first because we'll use LSN as NSN
> (node sequence number) needed for concurrency.
>
> Fpr details see "Concurrency and Recovery in Generalized Search Trees"
> by M. Kornacker, C.Mohan, J. Hellerstein.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
> _____________________________________________________________
> Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
> Internet: oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
> phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83
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