Re: GIST

Here's a good spring board for information. They actually have some
pretty cool tools available to help develop. Using the libgist stuff
makes it pretty easy to prototype and play with various index schemes of
your own creation and the debugger lets you rapidly view the storage
results.

http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/

On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 20:48, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > Oh yes, one last question, is the required method for adding index
> > > support via GiST? I ask because it seems to me that inserts could be
> > > exceptionally expensive, though as usual, I still have more to look at.
> >
> > I think we would recommend GIST because it is easier.
>
> Would someone be able to explain to me exactly what GIST is? I thought it
> was just a _type_ of index, but is it actually a generalised index-creating
> framework? Do other DMBSs use it? Is it a cool thing I could talk about
> when I give my talk at UWA tommorrow?
>
> Chris
>