OK. We found an old implementation of R-Tre using GiST (Pg95)
and we'll try to implement regression test using R-Tree
it's anyway will be a good test.
Regards,
Oleg
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
>
> > > Um, you do realize that a contrib module that gets used as part of the
> > > regress tests may as well be mainstream? At least in terms of the
> > > portability requirements it will have to meet?
> > >
> > > I'm unhappy again. Bad enough we accepted a new feature during beta;
> > > now we're going to expect an absolutely virgin contrib module to work
> > > everywhere in order to pass regress tests?
> >
> > Ops, agreed.
> > And I fear that in current code there is no one GiST index
> > implementation -:( Should we worry about regress tests? -:)
>
>
> Yes, we had to write contrib module even to test GiST. People,
> I'm really confused after reading all of messages.
> GiST is just an interface and to test any interface you need 2 sides.
> In current code there is only one side. old GiST code live
> untested for years. What's the problem ? It's the problem of
> current regression test, mostly.
> Ok. We could rewrite R-Tree to use GiST and make regression test which
> will not make people nervous. But this certainly not for 7.1 and most
> probable without us. Author of R-Tree could write this easily.
> I read Bruce's interview and was really relaxed -
> how everything is going well. Bruce, we need your opinion.
>
>
> Oleg
> >
> > Vadim
> >
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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Regards, Oleg
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