On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 23:26 +0400, Alexander Korotkov wrote: > Hi, Jeff! > > > Heikki has recently commited my patch about picksplit for GiST on > points and boxes: > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f3bd86843e5aad84585a57d3f6b80db3c609916 > I would like to try this picksplit method on ranges. I believe that it > might be much more efficient on highly overlapping ranges than current > picksplit. Range types patch isn't commited, yet. So, what way of work > publishing is prefered in this case? Add-on patch, separate branch in > git or something else?
Sounds great! Thank you. The repo is available here: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=users/jdavis/postgres.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/rangetypes I'd prefer to include it in the initial patch. If the current GiST code is going to be replaced, then there's not much sense reviewing/testing it. You may need to consider unbounded and empty ranges specially. I made an attempt to do so in the current GiST code, and you might want to take a look at that first. I'm not particularly attached to my approach, but we should do something reasonable with unbounded and empty ranges. Regards, Jeff Davis -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
