Re: Rtree; cannot create index on polygons with lots of points - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oleg Bartunov
Subject Re: Rtree; cannot create index on polygons with lots of points
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.33.0105240814530.8199-100000@ra.sai.msu.su
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In response to Rtree; cannot create index on polygons with lots of points  (Dave Blasby <dblasby@refractions.net>)
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Dave Blasby wrote:

>
> I noticed that the GiST indexing has compress and decompress functions -
> could this type of index be used?  {I first tryed making a GiST index,
> but it didnt work for me.  I'm using the rtree index because it worked
> fine.}

What're the problem with GiST ? Did you try Rtree implementation using
GiST (http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist) ?
We didn't implemented polygon datatype but it's rather straightforward.

Regards,    Oleg
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