Re: GIT patch

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: GIT patch
Date: 2007-08-17 02:29:01
Message-ID: 46C507ED.60309@commandprompt.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> These patches will be held for 8.4:
>>>
>>> o Grouped Index Tuples (GIT)
>>> o Bitmap scan changes
>>> o Stream bitmaps (API change for Group Index Tuples)
>>> o Maintaining cluster order on insert
>>>
>>> I believe Heikki is in agreement on this.
>> That is certainly a bummer.
>
> I think text search has challenges similar to GIT, but the GIT issues
> were more how to change the internal API, while text search was a
> user-API issue which is easier to bang into shape.

Well let me just throw out there that I am in favor of this hold back
for 8.4. I don't like it but I am in favor of it.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>

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