Re: Fractal tree indexing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Atri Sharma
Subject Re: Fractal tree indexing
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Msg-id CAOeZVieHRejg8Gy-Evek4e2H8XcsnQ7F_saDze7Abp4cwH305Q@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Fractal tree indexing  (Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Fractal tree indexing  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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>
> I remember we have already discussed fractal trees privately. Short
> conclusions are so:
> 1) Fractal tree indexes are patented. It is distributed as commercial
> extension to MySQL. So we can't include it into PostgreSQL core.
> 2) Tokutek can't provide full-fledged fractal tree indexes as PostgreSQL
> extension because lack of WAL extensibility.
> We could think about WAL extensibility which would help other applications
> as well.
>

Sounds nice. WAL extensibility can help.

Atri



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