Re: arrays and indexes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: arrays and indexes
Date: 2004-07-26 21:21:12
Message-ID: 9847.1090876872@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> I would be curious to know how it goes. My own project uses
> denormalized sets stored as arrays as well, though in my case they're
> precalculated from the fully normalized data. I tried to use GiST
> indexes but ran into problems combining the btree-GiST code with array
> GiST code in a multicolumn index. I still don't really know why it
> failed, but after two days building the index I gave up.

Sounds like a bug to me. Could you put together a test case?

regards, tom lane

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