Do you use PostGIS BRIN?

Regina Obe lr at pcorp.us
Sat Jan 4 23:53:49 PST 2025


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



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