On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Neil Conway wrote:

Bruce Momjian wrote:
Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.

- <para>
-  The current implementation of <acronym>GiST</acronym> within
-  <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has some major limitations:
-  <acronym>GiST</acronym> index access is not concurrent, and the
-  <acronym>GiST</acronym> interface doesn't allow the development of certain
-  data types, such as digital trees (see papers by Aoki et al).
- </para>

AFAIK the GiST modifications suggested Aoki have not yet been implemented, so this should not have been removed.

yes, this is the next step of our work on GiST. Call for support :)


-Neil

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