Re: BUG #19000: gist index returns inconsistent result with gist_inet_ops - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> We've known about this for, um, decades: btree_gist's support for
>> inet/cidr is fundamentally broken [1][2].  It's still there
>> only because nobody's been able to think of a way of removing it
>> without causing pain for anyone who has indexes like that.
>> But maybe we should just accept that it's going to cause pain
>> and remove it.

> I think correctness should take priority over avoiding pain.

Yeah.  I spent a little time investigating this today, and hope
to have a patch to propose tomorrow.

            regards, tom lane