Re: About Page Draft

Okay, I added some info on GiST under the features section. See what
you think. I tried to make it as technically correct as I could, but
feel free to correct me. I still have to have my wife (the smarter
half) look it over for spelling/grammer. Any suggestions on any part,
just let me know.

-- Mike

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:44:01 +0300 (MSK), Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> this is great ! I don't know how detailed your document would be, so
> I just point you to GiST introduction
> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/doc/intro.shtml
> AFAIK, postgres has first implementation of such structures.
>
> Oleg
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Michael Owens wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > A couple of weeks ago I started putting together some general text for
> > the About Page. No one asked me to do it, and it's not perfect, and
> > certainly you don't have to use it, but it interested me and I just
> > thought I would try to do what I could to help out.
> >
> > I dug through various stuff in the docs and on the net, and lifted out
> > everything I could. I think most of the historical stuff is accurate
> > although I've seen different takes on what exactly went into Informix
> > (thought some references mentioned Ingres rather than Postgres).
> >
> > Anyway, if this is helpful, I'll keep working on it and try to get it
> > more presentable. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Also, I want to thank you guys and everyone involved for creating such
> > a terrific project. I've used a lot of databases, and PostgreSQL is by
> > far the all around best.
> >
> > The draft is at http://www.gintana.com/pgsql/.
> >
> > -- Mike
> >
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>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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