Re: [PATCH] we have added support for box type in SP-GiST index - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: [PATCH] we have added support for box type in SP-GiST index
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In response to Re: [PATCH] we have added support for box type in SP-GiST index  (Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>)
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Re: [PATCH] we have added support for box type in SP-GiST index
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> wrote:

>> I couldn't get the term 4D point.  Maybe it means that we are
>> using box datatype as the prefix, but we are not treating them
>> as boxes.
>
> exactly, we treat boxes as 4-dimentional points.

I'm not entirely sure I understand the terminology either, since I
tend to think of a *point* as having *zero* dimensions.  Would it
perhaps be more accurate to say we are treating a 2-dimensional box
as a point in 4-dimensional space?

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Kevin Grittner
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