Re: Another idea for GSoC indexing project

Sounds interesting, but this will also require a wrapper for this
composite types?

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От кого: "Alexander Korotkov" <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Дата: 24 апреля 2013, 17:12:29

Hi, everybody!
The major reason why we have so small number of GiST/SP-GiST/GIN
implementations is that their interface function takes arguments of
"internal" datatype (actually they are mostly pointers, not normal
PostgreSQL datatypes). So, you actually can implement them in C. It
discourages many users.
Idea of project is to provide alternative interfaces for
GiST/SP-GiST/GIN which deal with composite types and arrays. Then
users can write GiST/SP-GiST/GIN implementations on whatever they
like SQL, pl/pgSQL, pl/Python etc.Probably someone would like to put
his hands on it?
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With best regards,
Alexander Korotkov.