Mike,
this is great ! I don't know how detailed your document would be, so
I just point you to GiST introduction
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/doc/intro.shtml
AFAIK, postgres has first implementation of such structures.
Oleg
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Michael Owens wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> A couple of weeks ago I started putting together some general text for
> the About Page. No one asked me to do it, and it's not perfect, and
> certainly you don't have to use it, but it interested me and I just
> thought I would try to do what I could to help out.
>
> I dug through various stuff in the docs and on the net, and lifted out
> everything I could. I think most of the historical stuff is accurate
> although I've seen different takes on what exactly went into Informix
> (thought some references mentioned Ingres rather than Postgres).
>
> Anyway, if this is helpful, I'll keep working on it and try to get it
> more presentable. Any ideas and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Also, I want to thank you guys and everyone involved for creating such
> a terrific project. I've used a lot of databases, and PostgreSQL is by
> far the all around best.
>
> The draft is at http://www.gintana.com/pgsql/.
>
> -- Mike
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Regards,
Oleg
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