From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section. |
Date: | 2005-07-04 00:29:11 |
Message-ID: | 42C882D7.1000101@familyhealth.com.au |
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> - <para>
> - The current implementation of <acronym>GiST</acronym> within
> - <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has some major limitations:
> - <acronym>GiST</acronym> index access is not concurrent, and the
> - <acronym>GiST</acronym> interface doesn't allow the development of
> certain
> - data types, such as digital trees (see papers by Aoki et al).
> - </para>
>
> AFAIK the GiST modifications suggested Aoki have not yet been
> implemented, so this should not have been removed.
I thought that was an extremely vague limitation and could easily be
removed... It's like having a limitations section on btrees and have
mentioning in passing that it can't do full text indexing or something.
Chris
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