From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:36:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Better late than never: document that the GiST API changed in 8.0 in the
X-Git-Tag: REL8_0_2~88
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5b327fb917c126f93ee85db09a16ca02c0dd8bf9;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

Better late than never: document that the GiST API changed in 8.0 in the
"incompatibilities" section of the release notes.
---

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index e062e7d835c..8ca2ebba9df 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.321.4.5 2005/02/02 18:17:34 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.321.4.6 2005/02/06 22:36:10 neilc Exp $
 -->
 
 <appendix id="release">
@@ -467,6 +467,15 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
       </para>
      </listitem>
 
+     <listitem>
+      <para>
+       The API for user-defined GiST indexes has been changed. The
+       Union and PickSplit methods are now passed a pointer to a
+       special <structname>GistEntryVector</structname> structure,
+       rather than a <type>bytea</type>.
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+
     </itemizedlist>
    </para>
   </sect2>