Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.
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Msg-id 2553.1120443177@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.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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