Re: Multicolumn Indexing using R-Tree

From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey(at)refractions(dot)net>
To: lima_caetano(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br (Marcio Caetano)
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multicolumn Indexing using R-Tree
Date: 2004-02-03 19:52:05
Message-ID: 71121FA0-5682-11D8-B42D-000393D33C2E@refractions.net
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Try using GiST rtree (examples in contrib), GiST supports multi-key
indexes.

On Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at 06:56 AM, Marcio Caetano wrote:

> I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.2 and I need to create a R-Tree index that
> uses more than one column in a table.
>
> When I run the instruction it appears this message bellow:
>
> DefineIndex: access method "rtree" does not support multi-column
> indexes
>
> How can I solve this problem ?
> Is it a limitation of PostgreSQL or the R-Tree concept ?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Márcio Caetano

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