Re: Terminology issue: suffix tree

From: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Terminology issue: suffix tree
Date: 2013-05-06 11:10:05
Message-ID: CAPpHfdtwPuKWzs6ceVfaH6qxL6qX=FW-8Ejg0MoT-YpyM_1Dxw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hackers,
>
> we have SP-GiST opclass called suffix tree. Apparently is NOT suffix tree.
>

To be clear: not opclass name itself, but comments, readmes and docs are
affected.

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

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With best regards,
Alexander Korotkov.

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suffix-fix.patch application/octet-stream 66.1 KB

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