Re: GiST support for inet datatypes

2014-02-17 22:16, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:

> More generally, it doesn't look to me like these upgrade scripts are
> complete; shouldn't they be creating some new objects, not just replacing
> old ones?

The actual patches are on the previous mail [1]. I was just trying
to solve the problem that btree_gist cannot be loaded because of
the new operator class.

> In short we probably need to think a bit harder about what this patch is
> proposing to do.  It seems fairly likely to me that some other approach
> would be a better idea.

How about only removing the inet and the cidr operator classes
from btree_gist. btree-gist-drop-inet-v2.patch does that.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAE2gYzxc0FXEwe59sFdUZNQ24c+fRBDMGXwwvbYvmeaNateidw@mail.gmail.com