On 05/03/2020 16:33, Tom Lane wrote:
> Elsewhere in indexcmds.c, there's this:
>
> /*
> * Hack to provide more-or-less-transparent updating of old RTREE
> * indexes to GiST: if RTREE is requested and not found, use GIST.
> */
> if (strcmp(accessMethodName, "rtree") == 0)
> {
> ereport(NOTICE,
> (errmsg("substituting access method \"gist\" for obsolete
> method \"rtree\"")));
> accessMethodName = "gist";
> tuple = SearchSysCache1(AMNAME,
> PointerGetDatum(accessMethodName));
> }
Aww, this one is in my list of gotcha trivia questions.
That's not a reason not to remove it, of course.
--
Vik Fearing
