Re: [HACKERS] Features for next release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Features for next release
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Msg-id m11b4mB-0003kLC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Features for next release  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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>
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >   >> Bruce, you asked for a v6.5.3 to be released...anything outstanding that
> >   >> should prevent me from doing that tomorrow afternoon?
> >   >
> >   >Not that I know of.  I was waiting to see if we could come up with other
> >   >patches, but I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon.
> >
> > Will this include a patch to let NUMERIC fields be indexed?
>
> Not sure.

    Not  FOR  sure.  Adding  the  default  operator class etc. is
    adding catalog entries. Thus it requires "initdb" and  that's
    a NONO for bugfix releases according to our release policy.

    It's done in the v7.0 tree.


Jan

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