On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
>>> We usually say about 200 unique values as a limit for
>>> gist_int_ops.
>>
>> That seems awfully small ... should we make gist_intbig_ops the default,
>> or more likely, raise the signature size of both opclasses? Even at a
>> crossover point of 10000 I'm not sure that many real-world apps would
>> bother considering gist_int_ops.
>
> gist__int_ops doesn't uses signatures, it uses range compression, which
> is not lossy, but not capacious. Perhaps, that's why we decided to use it as
sorry, it's lossy
> default opclass.
>
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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> Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
> Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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>
Regards,
Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
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