GiST Access Method for PostgreSQL

Welcome to the Generalized Search Tree (GiST) access method for PostgreSQL. This document should help you get the code installed, and get you writing your own gist opclasses quickly.

Table of Contents

• README: licensing information
• Installation guide
• Guided tour of the opclasses provided
• Contributors
• Limitations and bugs
• Download the source

Related Material

• GiST for PGSQL home page: the latest info on the GiST access method for PostgreSQL
• The PostgreSQL home page
• GiST for PostgreSQL has been taken up by the open source community. See this site for information.
• Also, the PostGIS project is using the Postgres GiST implementation for their Geographic Information System extensions to Postgres.
• A useful excerpt from the old PostgreSQL v1.0 manual on adding opclasses to postgres indices.
• libGiST, a standalone C++ library implementation of the GiST.
• GiST Research Project Home Page: The main WWW source for updates, documentation, and research results on GiST-based indexing research and software.
• Other database projects at UC-Berkeley: including the Mariposa DDBMS, the Tioga visualization project, the TIOGA online processing project, and prior work including INGRES and POSTGRES

Comments, questions and suggestions may be directed to gist@postgres.berkeley.edu