From: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
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To: | "Andrew J(dot) Kopciuch" <akopciuch(at)bddf(dot)ca> |
Cc: | gearond(at)cvc(dot)net, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: tsearch - v2 |
Date: | 2003-06-16 18:25:36 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.56.0306162218190.16134@ra.sai.msu.su |
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:59, you wrote:
> > What does GiST mean? Why isn't the acronymn explained on the front page of
> > the GiST site? And GBORG also, for that matter?
> >
>
> It stands for Genralized Search Tree.
>
> I don't know why there is not a definition at the "top" ... ask Oleg and
> Teodor.
>
ok,
actually, GiST is a play on words. Think about "The Gist of PostgreSQL".
'gist' was guessed by son of Joseph Hellerstein - the inventor of GiST.
> There is however a link on the main page to the GiST indexing project from
> Berkley University.
>
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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