| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Minmax indexes |
| Date: | 2013-09-30 16:29:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20130930162917.GA22020@fetter.org |
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:17:39PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> What would it take to abstract the minmax indexes to allow maintaing
> a bounding box for points, instead of a plain min/max? Or for
> ranges. In other words, why is this restricted to b-tree operators?
If I had to guess, I'd guess, "first cut."
I take it this also occurred to you and that you believe that this
approach makes the more general case or at least further out than it
would need to be. Am I close?
Cheers,
David.
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