Re: compress method for spgist - 2

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> wrote:
>>> Poorly, by hanging boxes that straddled dividing lines off the parent
>>> node in a big linear list. The hope would be that the case was
>>
>> Ok, I see, but that's not really what I was wondering. My question is
>> this:
>> SP-GiST partitions the space into non-overlapping sections. How can you
>> store
>> polygons - which can overlap - in an SP-GiST index? And how does the
>> compress
>> method help with that?
>
>
> I believe if we found a way to index boxes then we will need a compress
> method to build index over polygons.
>
> BTW, we are working on investigation a index structure for box where 2d-box
> is treated as 4d-point.

There has been no activity on this patch for some time now, and a new
patch version has not been submitted, so I am marking it as return
with feedback.
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Michael