Re: AW: Re: GiST for 7.1 !!

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: AW: Re: GiST for 7.1 !!
Date: 2001-01-12 16:33:03
Message-ID: 200101121633.LAA00493@candle.pha.pa.us
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> At this point my vote is to leave the GIST test in contrib for 7.1.
> Anyone who actually cares about GIST (to be blunt: all three of you)
> can run it as a separate step. I don't want it in the standard regress
> tests until 7.2, when we will have a reasonable amount of time to test
> and debug the test.

Agreed. I want the GIST fixes in 7.1, but adding a new test at this
point is too risky.

The issue is that only the GIST people will be using the GIST fixes,
while adding it to the regression test will affect all users, which is
too risky at this point.

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