Re: knngist - 0.8

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>>> Since no one has stepped up to fix these issues, I have marked this
>>>> patch Returned with Feedback.
>
>>> This is just contrib/btree_GIST, yes?
>
>> Yes, core KNN was committed by Tom during the November CommitFest.
>
> Right.  However, it's disappointing that this isn't in, because the
> number of use cases for KNN-gist in core isn't very large.  We really
> need support for KNN in btree_gist to make it useful.
>
> Given that it is a contrib module, I personally wouldn't object to it
> getting patched later, like during alpha or beta.  But somebody's got
> to do the work, and I've got a dozen higher-priority problems right now.

Well, we can argue about whether it's too late for 9.1 if and when a
patch shows up.  Right now we don't have that problem.

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