Alvaro,
you're welcome to put your hands on to GiST.
Me and Teodor hoped to add concurrency last year but we were too busy.
I consider concurrency issue the most important. There are also
some thoughts about improvement of GiST interface, though.
Regards,
Oleg
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> >> The other is that now I am left without a graduate project :-(
>
> > [ various good suggestions ]
>
> FWIW, I would much rather see effort put into GiST than hash indexes.
> I think that btree and GiST will be our two primary index types in the
> long run. Hash and rtree don't have enough to recommend them to justify
> directing maintenance effort that way rather than to the big guys.
>
> Just MHO of course...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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