Re: Rtree; cannot create index on polygons with lots of points

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Dave Blasby wrote:

>
> I noticed that the GiST indexing has compress and decompress functions -
> could this type of index be used? {I first tryed making a GiST index,
> but it didnt work for me. I'm using the rtree index because it worked
> fine.}

What're the problem with GiST ? Did you try Rtree implementation using
GiST (http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist) ?
We didn't implemented polygon datatype but it's rather straightforward.

Regards,
Oleg
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