Re: pgsql: Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> >> - <para>
> >> -  The current implementation of <acronym>GiST</acronym> within
> >> -  <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has some major limitations:
> >> -  <acronym>GiST</acronym> index access is not concurrent, and the
> >> -  <acronym>GiST</acronym> interface doesn't allow the development of
> >> certain
> >> -  data types, such as digital trees (see papers by Aoki et al).
> >> - </para>
> >>
> >> AFAIK the GiST modifications suggested Aoki have not yet been implemented,
> >> so this should not have been removed.
> >
> > I thought that was an extremely vague limitation and could easily be
> > removed...  It's like having a limitations section on btrees and have
> > mentioning in passing that it can't do full text indexing or something.
>
> ok, it's sort of TODO

Added to TODO:

    * Allow GIST indexes to create certain complex index types, like digital
      trees (see Aoki)

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