Re: Who is a maintainer of GiST code ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Who is a maintainer of GiST code ?
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Msg-id 1642.977173813@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Who is a maintainer of GiST code ?  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> We have a problem with
> handling NULL values in GiST. Any thought how NULL values
> are handle in Rtree.

AFAIR, none of the index access methods except btree handle NULLs at
all --- they just ignore NULL values and don't store them in the index.
Feel free to improve on that ;-).  The physical representation of index
tuples can handle NULLs, the problem is teaching the index logic where
they should go in the index.
        regards, tom lane


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