From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas@vmware.com>
To: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
To: Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: compress method for spgist - 2
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:13:27 +0200
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On 02/13/2015 06:17 PM, Teodor Sigaev wrote:
>> Now that the input data type and leaf data type can be different, which one is
>> "attType"? It's the leaf data type, as the patch stands. I renamed that to
>> attLeafType, and went fixing all the references to it. In most places it's just
>> a matter of search & replace, but what about the reconstructed datum? In
>
> Done. Now there is separate attType and attLeafType which describe input/output
> and leaf types.
Thanks.
Did you try finding a use case for this patch in one of the built-in or
contrib datatypes? That would allow writing a regression test for this.
In the original post on this, you mentioned that the PostGIS guys
planned to use this to store polygons, as bounding boxes
(http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5447B3FF.2080406@sigaev.ru). Any
idea how would that work?
- Heikki
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