Re: knngist patch support

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 
>> My own feeling about it is that I much preferred the original proposal
>> of a contrib module with little or no change to core code.  I don't want
>> to be changing core code for this at this late hour.  If it were only
>> touching GIST I'd be willing to rely on your and Teodor's expertise in
>> that module, but it's not.  It whacks around the planner, it makes
>> questionable changes in the operator class structure, and the last

We splitted patch to make review easy, probably by several reviewers,
since we touched several subsystems.
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4B4CCB9F.8080708@sigaev.ru

Patch for planner is 5600 bytes long, not so big.


>
> aha, we originally submit contrib module, which didn't touch anything you 
> mentioned, we improve stuff to follow discussion and now we are out of luck 
> %(
>
>> version I saw hadn't any documentation whatever.  It's not committable
>> on documentation grounds alone, even if everybody was satisfied about
>> the code.
>
> well, there is enough documentation to review patch. In my understanding this 
> was always enough to submit code. User's documentation is depend on 
> discussion and review and can be added later
> before releasing beta.
>
>> 
>> How do you feel about going back to the original contrib module for now
>> and resubmitting the builtin version for 9.1?
>
> Hmm, one good thing is that rbtree seems ok for submisson. We need to discuss
> this, if it's good for PostGIS community. I'd not complain about this 
> decision
> if it touch my interests only, I could live with closed-source patch.

Contrib module is a big step backward and will produce compatibility problem,
since we'll have to use awkward operation ><, which works different 
with/without index. Also, it'd be very difficult to add support to other
contrib modules (btree_gist, pg_trgm).

Links:
Heikki complaint - http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4B0B8C30.2080400@enterprisedb.com
Simon - http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/1259115190.27757.11194.camel@ebony

    Regards,        Oleg
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