From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Who is a maintainer of GiST code ?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:23:32 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200012180423.XAA19618@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26995.977093617@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > I checked 7.1 feature list and didn't find any mention about GiST
> > but there are changes in GiST code. Who is a maintainer of GiST code ?
>
> You are ;-). If you expect to find someone who understands GiST better
> than you, you're probably out of luck.
>
> I recall having made a number of changes that applied to all of the
> index access methods, including GiST --- but I was just changing
> similar code in all the methods. I don't claim to know anything
> about GiST in particular.
I know I met someone who said they invented Gist. Tom, was that at the
Database Summit? I can't think of that person's name now. I think
there are some papers at Berkeley or a web site that goes into it in
detail.
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