> Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Is there any reason for Rtree circle ops not being included in > >>> PostgreSQL? > >> > >> rtree is going away (has gone away in HEAD awhile ago, in fact). > > > I know. I just want to make sure that there's any technical reason it > > had not been supported for long time. > > AFAIR, the code simply wasn't there before 8.1. I threw in an opclass > definition for circles while adding the rtree-equivalent opclasses > to GIST, because the use case for it was pretty obvious > (distance-to-a-point type queries). We could have added the same > opclass to rtree at the same time, but I saw no point given that we > were planning to drop rtree in the next release cycle. > > > BTW, I seems there are some users who are willing to continue to use > > Rtree. > > It's a bit late to be objecting to that decision.
Yes, probably the only way to help the user would be 1) build a new pgfoundry or whatever open souce project 2) provide a commercial support for him. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
