From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200012180423.XAA19618@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Who is a maintainer of GiST code ?
In-Reply-To: <26995.977093617@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at Dec 17,
	2000 05:53:37 pm"
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:23:32 -0500 (EST)
CC: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>,
	PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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> 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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