Re: index changing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: index changing
Date
Msg-id 151.1065465451@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to index changing  ("monu_indian" <monu_indian@indiatimes.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
"monu_indian" <monu_indian@indiatimes.com> writes:
> I have designed a new indexing tecknique for biological database now I want to implement it in pgsql so what the work
Iwill have to do? From where I should start?
 

You could write a new index access method ... though I would not exactly
recommend that as a good project for a first-time Postgres hacker.

It might be that you could implement what you want to do as a layer on
top of the GIST index type.  See the GIST-related contrib modules for
some examples.
        regards, tom lane


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