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To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>,
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Subject: Re: GiST for 7.1 !! 
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Comments: In-reply-to Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
	message dated "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:06:00 +0300"
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:49:14 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> we've almost totally rewrite gist.c because old code and algorithm
> were not suitable for variable size keys. I think it might be
> submitted into 7.1 beta source tree.

Urgh.  Dropping in a total rewrite when we're already past beta3 doesn't
strike me as good project management practice --- especially if the
rewrite was done to add features (ie variable-size keys) not merely
fix bugs.  I think it might be more prudent to hold this for 7.2.

			regards, tom lane