Thread: gist README

Hello

I see that the gist README file (src/backend/access/gist/README) hasn't 
seen any major content updates, since its initial creation, apart from 
gist insertion recovery issues [1].

I would like to ask if there are any major differences between the 
README file and postrges' code, and if the README file has the essence 
of what is happening in the gist code?

For example in commit (1f7ef548ec2e594fa8766781c490fb5b998ea46b) [2], 
another algorithm for splitting was implemented, but the paper isn't 
mentioned in the README file. The reason I am asking is that I am 
interested in gists (for a university project) and I would like to see 
how they were implemented in postgres.

Regards
Vangelis Katsikaros


[1] 

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=history;f=src/backend/access/gist/README;h=2d78dcb0dfaf21e348bcca3da8ba3829bcac5288;hb=master

[2] 
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=1f7ef548ec2e594fa8766781c490fb5b998ea46

On 01/24/2011 02:25 PM, Vangelis Katsikaros wrote:
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Oh sorry for the double posting. Thought I canceled it, my bad...

Vangelis