Re: about index inheritance

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Vincenzo Melandri <vmelandri@imolinfo.it> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> My first post here :)
> I stumbled into the same problem as this guy
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4BE2835A.5020601@cybertec.at
> , so since I have some spare time recently, I've set-up the development
> environment for postgresql and I think I may be able to contibute for the
> feature of index inheritance, that is currently unsopported, but listed in
> TODOs.
>
> I've spent some time reading the docs and I took a look at the code. Is
> anybody out there working on this already? I don't want to overlap someone
> else effort, plus I'll gladly take any advice or join the community efforts
> if any, 'cause this feature seems pretty huge to me at a first glance..

This is a really hard problem.  If you pick this as your first project
hacking on PostgreSQL, you will almost certainly fail.

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