Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.
Date: 2005-07-04 02:12:57
Message-ID: 2553.1120443177@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> 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.

Yeah, I agree. It'd be appropriate to mention the Aoki paper in TODO,
but we don't normally document "stuff we'd like to do someday" as
serious limitations.

regards, tom lane

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