Re: patch to allow btree indices on BYTEA - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: patch to allow btree indices on BYTEA
Date
Msg-id 8231.981349565@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to patch to allow btree indices on BYTEA  (Jered Floyd <jered@permabit.com>)
List pgsql-patches
Jered Floyd <jered@permabit.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, PostgreSQL 7.0.3 lacks the operations necessary to
> build indices on BYTEA types. The included patch implements the
> missing operations.

This patch is useless as given for current sources, since old-style
function linkage is no longer supported for built-in functions as of
7.1.  If you have time to redo the functions in new-style, it would
ease adding the functionality for 7.2 ...

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-patches by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: A Sparc/Linux patch (for 7.1), and a Linux rc.d/init.d script....
Next
From: Karel Zak
Date:
Subject: Re: julian day function