Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-06-13 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Le 12 juin 09 à 23:20, Tom Lane a écrit : Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com writes: Le 12 juin 09 à 21:49, Tom Lane a écrit : It seems to me it could still do with a lot more detail to specify what API the functions are really expected to implement. What's bothering me is the fuzziness

Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com writes: I've been working some more on this documentation: Applied with some editorialization. It seems to me it could still do with a lot more detail to specify what API the functions are really expected to implement. regards,

Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-06-12 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, Le 12 juin 09 à 21:49, Tom Lane a écrit : Applied with some editorialization. Thanks a lot :) It seems to me it could still do with a lot more detail to specify what API the functions are really expected to implement. I'm sorry I'm not following... I guess you're talking about a

Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com writes: Le 12 juin 09 à 21:49, Tom Lane a écrit : It seems to me it could still do with a lot more detail to specify what API the functions are really expected to implement. I'm sorry I'm not following... I guess you're talking about a better

Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-06-05 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, I've been working some more on this documentation: Le 20 mai 09 à 18:10, Dimitri Fontaine a écrit : - consistent signature update for 8.4 (recheck arg) - compress/decompress non void example This means the multi-column support part is still missing, as proper english review too. But

Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-05-20 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, Le 4 mai 09 à 14:24, Peter Eisentraut a écrit : There aren't a lot of people who have the experience to write that documentation. So if you want to improve it, you will have to write it, or at least organize the outline. Others can help cleaning it up. For the record, here's the

Re: [HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-05-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 16:43:44 Dimitri Fontaine wrote: The following documentation page explains the GiST API to extensions authors: I think we should be a little more verbose, I didn't propose a real doc patch mainly because english isn't my native language, and while you'll have to

[HACKERS] Documentation: GiST extension implementation

2009-04-30 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, The following documentation page explains the GiST API to extensions authors: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/gist-implementation.htm I think we should be a little more verbose, and at least explains some more the big picture: same/consistent/union are responsible for