The PostgreSQL source
distribution includes several examples of index methods implemented
using GiST. The core system
currently provides text search support (indexing for tsvector
and tsquery
) as
well as R-Tree equivalent functionality for some of the built-in
geometric data types (see src/backend/access/gist/gistproc.c
). The
following contrib
modules also
contain GiST operator
classes:
btree_gist
B-tree equivalent functionality for several data types
cube
Indexing for multidimensional cubes
hstore
Module for storing (key, value) pairs
intarray
RD-Tree for one-dimensional array of int4 values
ltree
Indexing for tree-like structures
pg_trgm
Text similarity using trigram matching
seg
Indexing for “float ranges”
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