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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Pg Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: "GIN and GiST Index Types" page is about usage in full text search, but looks general purpose
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 18:22:53 -0400
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Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 1:28 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Proposed patch attached.  The existing text already says "GIN indexes are
>> the preferred text search index type", so I'm not sure we need to go
>> further than that about guiding people which one to use.  In particular,
>> since GIN can't support included columns, we can't really deprecate GiST
>> altogether here.

> LGTM.

Done that way, then.

> I don't know enough about the topic to be able to claim that the
> robots.txt solution would also work out well, in about the same way.
> But I suspect that it might, and know that it's a reversible process.

Yeah, it's outside my expertise too.

			regards, tom lane

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