Re: knngist plans

Oleg as I said I do believe some things could get better in docs.
Here are 4 main drawbacks in my opinion:
1. The docs lack example(s). There are some references to gistproc.c etc but
this is not part of the docs and if I am someone that has just started this
is hard and confusing (I shouldn't have to read the full technical solution
to another problem in order to solve mine).
2. The 7 methods are poorly explained, at least theoretically. For example
when I started I couldn't understand where each function was used. I had to
read papers to understand the logic.
3. Describe situations that gist can be used. I am aware of spatial indexing
because I worked on it, but I have the impression that there are more (e.g.
computational biology).
4. Why not add some images/figures? (1 image = 1000 words)

GiST is a very important and useful part of postgresql but it's hard to get
started with it. Moreover, I am sure it has capabilities, other than the
profound, that are not known to many people (including me).
Plus knngist will give gist a boost, and I suggest that it shouldn't be
delayed any more.

We have some documentation already, Teodor will post soon.

I would really like to see what Teodor has done.

I could also prepare a document with the additions I would like to see in
docs. Shall I do it? Of course it might take a while to finish it.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Marios Vodas wrote:
>
> Recently I worked a lot with gist and read about knngist. I have spotted
>> weaknesses in docs. So I would be happy to help if you tell me how.
>>
>
> We have some documentation already, Teodor will post soon. Marios, I'd
> happy to help in writing docs. Do you have some plans ?
>
>
>
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Marios Vodas <mvodas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to ask in which future version of postgresql knngist is
>>>>
>>> planned
>>>
>>>> to be included. Is there any possibility to be included in 9.1?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There's a possibility, but I think the patch still needs some more
>>> work. One thing that would help is if someone felt motivated to write
>>> some documentation.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Robert Haas
>>> EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
>>> The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>>>
>>>
>>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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