On 08/05/2014 04:41 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > I have chosen to keep the name "minmax", even if the opclasses now let > one implement completely different things on top of it such as geometry > bounding boxes and bloom filters (aka bitmap indexes). I don't see a > need for a rename: essentially, in PR we can just say "we have these > neat minmax indexes that other databases also have, but instead of just > being used for integer data, they can also be used for geometry, GIS and > bitmap indexes, so as always we're more powerful than everyone else when > implementing new database features".
Plus we haven't come up with a better name ... -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
