Re: "external indices" ...

Summary:

"Currently used with Oracle databases thru their Extensible
Indexing Cartridge.

What we are interested in is finding out whether or not we can use our
technology directly with PostgreSQL. That would involve, from a overly
simplistic view, allowing Postgres to use external indexes."

Does that help any?

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> I believe that this is what Oleg et al tap into with the tsearch2 stuff,
>> no? I have someone asking me about it, and want to make sure that I'm
>> telling him the right answer ... is this what GiST is?
>
> Better ask what he means by "external" exactly. I think I've heard some
> people use the phrase "external index" to mean any index that's not
> actually part of the table itself; which makes all our index types
> "external". (As a counterexample, imagine a table that is itself
> organized as a btree.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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