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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Stating the significance of Lehman & Yao in the nbtree README
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In response to Re: Stating the significance of Lehman & Yao in the nbtree README  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: Stating the significance of Lehman & Yao in the nbtree README  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> writes:
> Right. It seems like the nbtree README is very shy about telling us
> what the point of all this extra work is.

IIRC, the README was written on the assumption that you'd already read
L&Y.  If this patch is mostly about not assuming that, why not?
        regards, tom lane

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