On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> There's a bunch of mails in the patch queue about the indexam API, so we need
> to discuss that.
>
> The first question is: do we want to refactor the bitmap index scan API, if
> we don't have any immediate use for it? Namely, since we don't have anyone
> actively working on the bitmap index patch nor the git patch.
>
> There was also discussion on adding support for "candidate matches", mainly
> for GIT, but GiST could possibly also take advantage of that.
we talked about GIN. It'd be great if we eliminate @@@ operator in 8.4 !
>
> If people think it's worth it, I can fix the bit-rot in the patch and work on
> it, but personally I don't think it is.
Regards,
Oleg
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