Re: "external indices" ...

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
>> Marc,
>>
>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I believe that this is what Oleg et al tap into with the tsearch2 stuff,
>>> no? I have someone asking me about it, and want to make sure that I'm
>>> telling him the right answer ... is this what GiST is? And, if so, what
>>> is a *good* doc for me to point them at to get up to speed with it? Is
>>> what we have in the docs the best place, or is there something someone
>>> else has written that gets into it even more?
>>
>> I'm a little bit confused, because I couldn't catch your meaning :)
>
> tsearch2 is an external indexing method, no? external in that it isn't
> intergrated as part of PostgreSQL, but is added on ... with the 'add on'
> being through the GiST framework ... right ?

I think, that guy asked about if tsearch2 is an external program which
running as a separate process.

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