Re: index support for arrays (GiST)

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:47:01 +0000
> From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
> To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
> Cc: selkovjr(at)mcs(dot)anl(dot)gov, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
> vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM,
> 'pgsql-hackers ' <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] index support for arrays (GiST)
>
> > It looks like other people just didn't use index decompression function
> > (at least in Gene's code decompression function just do return ) and
> > that's why this bug was not discovered. We could make a patch for
> > upcoming 7.1 if hackers desired. I consider this patch as a bugfix
> > not a new feature or improvement. We got a very promising results.
>
> Yes, send patches! Thanks to you and Gene for getting GiST back into
> view; it seems like a great feature which was neglected for too long.
>

We found one more bug with handling NULL values, so continue digging :-)

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> - Thomas
>

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