New geographic types....

As part of the Fmaps project (Fmaps.sourceforge.net), Eric Miller is
developing some new geographic types for Postgres. We have several questions
relating to the implementation of new types, variable types, and especially
how to index them. For the moment we are developing the new types/functions
as extensions, should it stays that way or what does it imply to be merged
in the main distribution.

We will be glad if someone can point us to some documentation on the
subject, as the developer doc that comes with PG is very short on the
subject.

For Fmaps to be complete, we will need a toasted version of PG where the 8kB
limit has been removed, and works with custom types. Can someone give a
status on toasted PG (working, not working, stable enough, unstable,...)

Cheers...

Franck Martin
Network and Database Development Officer
SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Fiji
E-mail: franck(at)sopac(dot)org(dot)fj <mailto:franck(at)sopac(dot)org(dot)fj>
Web site: www.sopac.org.fj <http://www.sopac.org.fj>