Re: Stating the significance of Lehman & Yao in the nbtree README

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Stating the significance of Lehman & Yao in the nbtree README
Date: 2014-07-23 00:39:19
Message-ID: 8490.1406075959@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> writes:
> Right. It seems like the nbtree README is very shy about telling us
> what the point of all this extra work is.

IIRC, the README was written on the assumption that you'd already read
L&Y. If this patch is mostly about not assuming that, why not?

regards, tom lane

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