On 03/24/2016 12:40 PM, Matt Wilmas wrote:
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> It would be *really* nice to have this in 9.6. It seems it's simply
> filling out functionality that should already be there, right? An
> oversight/bug fix so it works "as advertised?" :-)
I think that would be stretching the process a bit far. I'm certainly
not prepared to commit it unless there is a general consensus to make an
exception for it.
> Is any other btree type-compatibility missing from these modules? (I
> notice the btree_gin docs don't mention "numeric," but it works.)
uuid would be another type that should be fairly easily covered but isn't.
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> I just looked over the patch, and the actual code addition/changes
> seem pretty small and straightforward (or am I wrong?).
Yes, sure, it's all fairly simple. Took me a little while to understand
what I was doing, but once I did it was pretty much plain sailing.
cheers
andrew