| From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: No longer possible to query catalogs for index capabilities? |
| Date: | 2016-08-08 01:50:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20160808015040.GA2547269@tornado.leadboat.com |
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On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 07:19:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Had the complaint been raised sooner, maybe there would've been time
> to get a well-thought-out API into 9.6. The fact that it wasn't raised
> till more than 6 months after we committed the pg_am changes, and more
> than 2 months after 9.6beta1 was released, makes me feel that it's not
> all that critical a problem.
>
> Having said all that, it is unfortunate that 9.6 is going to go out
> without any good solution to this need. But as Robert already pointed
> out, trying to fix it now would force delaying 9.6rc1 by several weeks
> (and that's assuming that it doesn't take very long to get consensus
> on a solution). There's not, AFAICT, desire on the part of the release
> team to do that. We'd like to ship 9.6 on time for a change.
I agree with all that.
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