Re: new module contrib/tree for 7.2 ?

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Oleg, can you send over a patch?
>

As soon as I write documentation :-) I hope I could use this weekend

Oleg

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>
> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is't late to submit new contrib module for 7.2 ?
> > It's almost ready and tested, we have to write README.tree.
> >
> > New module creates new data types 'tree', 'treequery' for tree-like data and
> > provides indexed access methods using Btree or GiST.
> > Node represents as a path to the root, so record like '3.4' means
> > 4-th child of 3-rd child of the root node.
> > Due-to bit-representation there is a limitation to the number of
> > children - 64 and defined in compile time (valid values - 8,16,32,64).
> > For practical purposes 64 children looks quite enough.
> > insert,delete operations should be ok, while move operations
> > is a pain - one should update all paths of children nodes.
> > But search is very fast, we use data from Open Directory catalog (www.dmoz.org)
> > for testing:
> >
> > Select all countries:
> >
> > dmoz64=# explain analyze select * from dmoz where tid <* '18.*.0';
> > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN:
> >
> > Index Scan using tid_g_idx on dmoz (cost=0.00..1094.10 rows=277 width=100) (actual time=3.54..23.76 rows=56 loops=1)
> > Total runtime: 23.96 msec
> >
> > EXPLAIN
> > dmoz64=#
> >
> > name | strid | id | tid
> > ---------------------+-------------------------------+--------+-------
> > Tagalog | Top/World/Tagalog | 276537 | 18.18
> > Taiwanese | Top/World/Taiwanese | 276566 | 18.19
> > Tamil | Top/World/Tamil | 276567 | 18.20
> > Telugu | Top/World/Telugu | 276568 | 18.21
> > Thai | Top/World/Thai | 276601 | 18.22
> > Ukrainian | Top/World/Ukrainian | 276602 | 18.23
> > Vietnamese | Top/World/Vietnamese | 276603 | 18.24
> > Japanese | Top/World/Japanese | 268629 | 18.31
> > Kiswahili | Top/World/Kiswahili | 268630 | 18.32
> > Afrikaans | Top/World/Afrikaans | 256813 | 18.1
> > Italiano | Top/World/Italiano | 266163 | 18.30
> > Interlingua | Top/World/Interlingua | 266144 | 18.29
> > Indonesia | Top/World/Indonesia | 265859 | 18.28
> > Croatian | Top/World/Croatian | 257063 | 18.12
> > ....................................................................
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Oleg
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Regards,
Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
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