Re: contrib/postgis spatial extensions

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)refractions(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: contrib/postgis spatial extensions
Date: 2001-08-10 15:07:10
Message-ID: 200108101507.f7AF7AH09785@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > It also reduces the size of the patch, because we are removing existing
> > code that was never really maintained.
>
> You are forgetting the work I and others have put into it (mostly three
> or four years ago iirc). But I'm sure that the GIS code is an
> improvement ;)

Let me add that PostGIS has worked closely with Oleg and all their
indexing is based on GIST.

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