On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Janek Sendrowski <janek12(at)web(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I use this ORDER BY using index feature presented in this
> implementation.
> It doesn't seem to be in use, when I have a look in my query plan.
> It still does an cost intensive Bitmap Heap Scan and a Bitmap Index scan.
> I also can't find the "><" operator in any introduction of the tsearch2
> extension.
> Is it just an idea?
>
A GIST is a tree, but there's no notion of ">" or "<", only yes/no at each
tree branch. In this regard a GIST index is more like a hash table. You
can't use a hash table to sort. It doesn't make sense.
Craig
> Thanks for your help!
> Janek Sendrowski
>