Re: Index AM change proposals, redux

Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> A bigger issue is whether this is worth applying when nobody seems to be
> >> working on either of the main uses for it (bitmap indexes and GIT
> >> indexes).  There seemed to be some possible marginal use for it in GIST
> >> indexes, but I'm not convinced that's a sufficient reason to complicate
> >> the APIs.
> 
> > It has some merit on its own.
> 
> Yeah, and Teodor's point about cleaning up the @@@ hack pretty much
> seals the deal for me.
> 
> Unless anyone has objections, I will review and apply Heikki's patch
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-03/msg00163.php
> which covers both the amgetmulti return-a-bitmap change and the
> candidate-matches change.  (Heiiki, you don't have a later version
> of that do you?)
> 
> The remaining topics associated with index AMs are closed for this
> commit fest, unless anyone has specific questions they want discussed
> right now...

OK, do you want the items moved to the next commit-fest, discarded, or
made into TODOs?  And which ones?  Or do you want to do it?

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