Re: multi-column btree index for real values

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martin Weinberg <weinberg(at)osprey(dot)astro(dot)umass(dot)edu>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "Martin D(dot) Weinberg" <weinberg(at)astro(dot)umass(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: multi-column btree index for real values
Date: 2002-10-05 21:39:45
Message-ID: 200210052139.g95Ldjv02630@candle.pha.pa.us
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Martin Weinberg wrote:
> Thanks Bruce. Some simple tests on a 10 million tuple data base shows
> that r-tree works well for this. (It took me a while to realize
> that I had to sort boxes of zero area rather than points).
>
> However, it seems that the rtree index has a serious memory leak for
> 7.2.2. Is that known?

Uh, I am not aware of that, but you can try 7.3beta to see if it is
better, and if not, report back.

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