David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:17:39PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> > What would it take to abstract the minmax indexes to allow maintaing
> > a bounding box for points, instead of a plain min/max? Or for
> > ranges. In other words, why is this restricted to b-tree operators?
>
> If I had to guess, I'd guess, "first cut."
Yeah, there were a few other simplifications in the design too, though I
admit allowing for multidimensional dataypes hadn't occured to me
(though I will guess Simon did think about it and just didn't tell me to
avoid me going overboard with stuff that would make the first version
take forever).
I think we'd better add version numbers and stuff to the metapage to
allow for extensions and proper upgradability.
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