On 05/03/2020 16:33, Tom Lane wrote: > Elsewhere in indexcmds.c, there's this: > > /* > * Hack to provide more-or-less-transparent updating of old RTREE > * indexes to GiST: if RTREE is requested and not found, use GIST. > */ > if (strcmp(accessMethodName, "rtree") == 0) > { > ereport(NOTICE, > (errmsg("substituting access method \"gist\" for obsolete > method \"rtree\""))); > accessMethodName = "gist"; > tuple = SearchSysCache1(AMNAME, > PointerGetDatum(accessMethodName)); > }
Aww, this one is in my list of gotcha trivia questions. That's not a reason not to remove it, of course. -- Vik Fearing