Re: RTREE on points

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Jeff Hoffmann wrote:

> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> >
> > GiST is great !
> >
> > You may look at http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/
> > for GiST implementation of RTree - it could be not compiled with 7.1
> > release due to some api changes, but it's not difficult to do.
>
> it looks like i just wasted a good couple of hours trying to convert the
> gist_box_ops. it did help find the pointer problem i was having because
> i'm still not up to speed on the new function calling conventions,
> though...
>

:-)

> > If somebody want it I could contribute it to contrib area.
>
> i'm definitely interested. i'm going to play with it & if oleg's claim
> holds about index insertion time holds, i can definitely see myself
> moving to it over the built in rtree. anything that can cut down the
> hours of index creation time would be great. also, it seems that it'd
> be a good choice for inclusion in the standard distribution because it'd
> be easy to test -- you already have to run rtree tests anyway, you can
> just duplicate them with gist & gist_box_ops.
>

nice you noticed that ! We'll update contrib-rtree_box_gist for 7.1 release
in a few days.

>

Regards,
Oleg
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