Re: Direct access to GIST structure

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru> wrote:
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>
> > encode spatial proximity. Is there an API (backend C-level is fine) to
> > access a GIST index?
> >
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> The best way is to extend existing interface to GiST to support KNN-search.
> But you can see how to get access to index structure from module in gevel
> module (http://www.sigaev.ru/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/gevel/). GiST-related
> functions in this module is invented to help to developers, not for
> production use, so they acquire exclusive lock on index.

Thanks that helps.

I just stumbled on http://www.cs.purdue.edu/spgist/ which seems like
exactly what I need.

THK

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