Re: Adding a suffix array index - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oleg Bartunov
Subject Re: Adding a suffix array index
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.61.0411191625160.24069@ra.sai.msu.su
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In response to Re: Adding a suffix array index  (Troels Arvin <troels@arvin.dk>)
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Troels Arvin wrote:

> Hello Oleg,
>
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 15:35 +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
>> your project looks very attractive.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> In principle, suffix array should be implemented using GiST framework.
>
> But in a previous conversation between the two of us, you wrote that the
> GiST wasn't suitable for this problem? I would very much like to use GiST

it's still true :( some problem with my english grammar.


> instead of having to create a whole new index infrastructure (if that's
> the alternative).
>
>> String Btree should be very useful for your problem.
>
> I thought that string b-trees were only usable for texts with natural
> stops (word boundaries), as opposed to very long, contiguous sequences. Am
> I mistaken?
>

I meant SB-Tree by Paolo Ferragina 
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ferragina98string.html

>
    Regards,        Oleg
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