Re: Minmax indexes

Thom Brown wrote:
> On 8 November 2013 20:11, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Erik Rijkers wrote:
> >> On Thu, September 26, 2013 00:34, Erik Rijkers wrote:
> >> > On Wed, September 25, 2013 22:34, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> [minmax-5.patch]
> >> >
> >> > I have the impression it's not quite working correctly.
> >
> > Here's a version 7 of the patch, which fixes these bugs and adds
> > opclasses for a bunch more types (timestamp, timestamptz, date, time,
> > timetz), courtesy of Martín Marqués. It's also been rebased to apply
> > cleanly on top of today's master branch.
> >
> > I have also added a selectivity function, but I'm not positive that it's
> > very useful yet.
>
> This patch doesn't appear to have been submitted to any Commitfest.
> Is this still a feature undergoing research then?

It's still a planned feature, but I didn't have time to continue work
for 2014-01.

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