Re: knngist - 0.8

Thanks to all for patience !

We'll sync contrib/btree_gist with current API. Also, we're thinking
about distance for ltree, boxes, circles. I'm not sure about polygons, though.
So, we'll have rather complete set of knn-fied data types.

Oleg
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Tom Lane wrote:

> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> 2010/9/13 Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>:
>>> [updated patch]
>
>> I realize I'm repeating myself, but... this patch needs
>> documentation. It's not optional.
>
> I've applied all of this, and written documentation for all of it,
> except for the contrib/btree_gist additions which still need to be
> redone for the revised API (and then documented!). My patience ran out
> somewhere around there, so I'm marking that part as returned with
> feedback.
>
> What we have at this point (pending contrib/btree_gist fixes) is
> nearest-neighbor searching capability for point columns. And
> trigram-based nearest-neighbor for text strings, if you install
> contrib/pg_trgm. That doesn't seem like a lot of return for the
> amount of work that went into it. Are there plans to add KNN support
> for any other standard types?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Regards,
Oleg
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