Re: "external indices" ... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Marc G. Fournier
Subject Re: "external indices" ...
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Msg-id 20050208164701.P94338@ganymede.hub.org
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In response to Re: "external indices" ...  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
Responses Re: "external indices" ...  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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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 ?

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