-This is B-Tree implementation using GiST for int2, int4, int8, float4, float8
-timestamp with/without time zone, time with/without time zone, date,
-interval, oid, money and macaddr, char, varchar/text, bytea, numeric,
-bit, varbit, inet/cidr types.
+This is a B-Tree implementation using GiST that supports the int2, int4,
+int8, float4, float8 timestamp with/without time zone, time
+with/without time zone, date, interval, oid, money, macaddr, char,
+varchar/text, bytea, numeric, bit, varbit and inet/cidr types.
All work was done by Teodor Sigaev (teodor@stack.net) , Oleg Bartunov
(oleg@sai.msu.su), Janko Richter (jankorichter@yahoo.de).
Feb 5, 2003 - btree_gist now support int2, int8, float4, float8
NOTICE:
- This version will works only with postgresql version 7.4 and above
- because of changes in interface of function calling and in system
- tables.
+ This version will only work with PostgreSQL version 7.4 and above
+ because of changes in the system catalogs and the function call
+ interface.
If you want to index varchar attributes, you have to index using
the function text(<varchar>):
-This is R-Tree implementation using GiST.
+This is a R-Tree implementation using GiST.
Code (for PG95) are taken from http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/gist/pggist/
and changed according to new version of GiST (7.1 and above)
2. gist_poly_ops is lossy
3. NULLs support
4. works with multi-key GiST
-
+
NOTICE:
- This version will works only with postgresql version 7.1 and above
- because of changes in interface of function calling.
+ This version will only work with PostgreSQL version 7.1 and above
+ because of changes in the function call interface.
INSTALLATION: