Re: GSoC project : K-medoids clustering in Madlib - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Atri Sharma <atri.jiit@gmail.com> writes:
> I suggested a couple of algorithms to be implemented in MADLib(apart
> from K Medoids). You could pick some(or all) of them, which would
> require 3 months to be completed.

> As for more information on index, you can refer

> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1

> along with the postgres wiki. The wiki is the standard for anything postgres.

> pg_trgm used KNN, but I believe it uses its own implementation of the
> algorithm. The idea I proposed aims at writing an implementation in
> the MADlib so that any client program can use the algorithm(s) in
> their code directly, using MADlib functions.

I'm a bit confused as to why this is being proposed as a
Postgres-related project.  I don't even know what MADlib is, but I'm
pretty darn sure that no part of Postgres uses it.  KNNGist certainly
doesn't.
        regards, tom lane