Re: index support for arrays (GiST)

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:47:01 +0000
> From: Thomas Lockhart 
> To: Oleg Bartunov 
> Cc: selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov, Tom Lane ,
>     vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM,
>     'pgsql-hackers ' 
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] index support for arrays (GiST)
> 
> > It looks like other people just didn't use index decompression function
> > (at least in Gene's code decompression function just do return  ) and
> > that's why this bug was not discovered. We could make a patch for
> > upcoming 7.1 if hackers desired. I consider this patch as a bugfix
> > not a new feature or improvement. We got a very promising results.
> 
> Yes, send patches! Thanks to you and Gene for getting GiST back into
> view; it seems like a great feature which was neglected for too long.
> 

We found one more bug with handling NULL values, so continue digging :-)
Олег

>                        - Thomas
> 

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