Re: GiST support for UUIDs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Paul A Jungwirth
Subject Re: GiST support for UUIDs
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Msg-id CA+renyXcdnFn7-ge9v4EXENd2mj1i1s_JR4p7TFrOgarqPv99Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: GiST support for UUIDs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: GiST support for UUIDs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com> writes:
>> I'm interested in adding GiST support for the UUID column type
>> . . . . So I'm curious where this change would go?
> btree_gist, I'd think

Okay, thank you for your answer! I was worried about the effects of
having btree_gist depend on uuid-ossp. People won't have to say
`CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp"` if they only want `btree_gist`, right?

> the overhead of an extension version bump will probably
> exceed the useful payload :-(

Sorry to put more work on your plate. :-) I'm trying to pick something
easy to get my feet wet.

Yours,
Paul



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