Re: Terminology issue: suffix tree

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Terminology issue: suffix tree
Date: 2013-05-08 11:50:03
Message-ID: 518A3BEB.1010801@vmware.com
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On 06.05.2013 14:10, Alexander Korotkov wrote:
> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Alexander Korotkov<aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>> In suffix tree we insert every suffix of source string into the tree.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_tree
>> Actually opclass implemented radix tree or patricia tree.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_tree
>> Likely we need a patch to rename it in all the places it mentioned.
>
> Patch is attached.

Thanks, committed.

> Apparently, we have same issue in contrib/unaccent.

Yeah. The data structure in contrib/unaccent seems to be a plain old
trie, rather than a radix trie, though. According to wikipedia at least,
the difference is that in a radix tree, the edges are labeled with
sequences of elements, rather than single elements. Want to patch that too?

- Heikki

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