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 f8bd9be82ef50f005274074205b19a44f906bfcc..75181208705843a3acf2355c90208db04b9382b3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -467,6 +467,15 @@ typedefs (Michael)
       
      
 
+     
+      
+       The API for user-defined GiST indexes has been changed. The
+       Union and PickSplit methods are now passed a pointer to a
+       special GistEntryVector structure,
+       rather than a bytea.
+      
+     
+