Re: knngist plans

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Marios Vodas wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
>
>> Marios,
>>
>> you're right. There are several reasons for poor documentation, but of
>> course,
>> no excuse, we do need good docs any way ! It's very nice you're willing to
>> write one, since it's always better seen from outside of development.
>> I think it'd be better to use wiki, so other people can join.
>> Pictures would be nice, but I don't know if there is consensus about using
>> pictures in documentation.
>>
>
> Wiki sounds good. Where can I find it?

Lets start from this page.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GiST
I think this page should be index page for all GiST documentation.

>
>
>> Oleg
>>
>> btw, we're thinking in the background about new indexing infrastructure -
>> Spatial GiST, but it's rather big project, so we need sponsors.
>
>
> Is it related to SP-GIST (http://www.cs.purdue.edu/spgist/)?

sort of.

Regards,
Oleg
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