David Fetter wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:17:39PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > What would it take to abstract the minmax indexes to allow maintaing > > a bounding box for points, instead of a plain min/max? Or for > > ranges. In other words, why is this restricted to b-tree operators? > > If I had to guess, I'd guess, "first cut."
Yeah, there were a few other simplifications in the design too, though I admit allowing for multidimensional dataypes hadn't occured to me (though I will guess Simon did think about it and just didn't tell me to avoid me going overboard with stuff that would make the first version take forever). I think we'd better add version numbers and stuff to the metapage to allow for extensions and proper upgradability. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
