RE: Do you use PostGIS BRIN?

Thanks for the input Arthur.

 

Much appreciated,

Regina

 

From: Arthur Bazin <[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2025 3:16 PM
To: Regina Obe <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Do you use PostGIS BRIN?

 

Hi,

 

Always have used GiST index, never BRIN. 

I do a lots of DB audit for many clients and I have never seen any use of BRIN index.

I think that this is not really used and maybe only by specific users with specific needs (for speed and space maybe).




Best regards ! 

	

Arthur Bazin 

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Le dim. 5 janv. 2025 à 10:06, Regina Obe <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > a écrit :

We are thinking of removing BRIN support in PostGIS because it has a serious
bug as discussed here.

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2025-January/030457.html

and here - https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5564

that currently causes crashes during Index building.

The two options on the table are:

1) Fix the issue
2) Remove BRIN Support


I'm leaning toward the removal of BRIN support because I see no point
carrying the technical baggage of continuously supporting BRIN and testing
it 
if very very few people are using it.  Yes this will be a breaking change
for those that use it.

Thanks,
Regina