Re: understanding post gres indexes

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: IYENGAR SURESH PARTHASARATHY <suresh(at)cse(dot)iitb(dot)ac(dot)in>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: understanding post gres indexes
Date: 2006-03-05 21:06:21
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On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 08:50 +0530, IYENGAR SURESH PARTHASARATHY wrote:
> i want to fully understand the functioning of postgres indexes with
> respect to the code.

See src/backend/access/ in the source tree, specifically the nbtree/,
hash/, gist/ and index/ subdirectories -- each directory has a README
with some additional information. Personally I find the hash index code
easiest to understand, although it has the fewest features.

-Neil

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