Re: Speed Question

Does anyone know how/where I can find the contrib/btree_gist stuff and
how I use it, and are there docs for it.

Thanks,

-N

On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 03:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at> writes:
>> ... where "similar" means that the value of each attribute lies within
>> a small range around the value of the corresponding attribute of the
>> reference object?
>
>> I don't know, whether GiST or R-Tree could help.
>
> If the problem is multidimensional range search then GIST might be just
> the ticket. I am not sure if you'd need to do any coding though. It
> looks like contrib/btree_gist provides the necessary operator class,
> but
> only for int4 and timestamp datatypes.
>
> I think that our r-tree code is restricted to two-dimensional indexing,
> so it wouldn't help.
>
> regards, tom lane
>