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Re: btree_gist (was: CommitFest progress - or lack thereof)

Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> — 2011-02-12T15:53:33Z

Stephen,

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Stephen Frost wrote:

> Oleg,
>
> * Oleg Bartunov (oleg@sai.msu.su) wrote:
>> what do you need for documentation ? From users point of view we add just
>> knn support and all examples are available in btree_gist.sql and sql
>> subdirectory. Contact me directly, if you have questions.
>
> It sure seems like
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/btree-gist.html could be and
> should be improved, in general..  If this module is really still just a
> test bed for GiST, then perhaps it's not a big deal..

No, it's quite useful and used in many projects, since it's the only way
to create multicolumn gist indexes like (tsvector,date).


 	Regards,
 		Oleg
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