Re: {Spam?} Re: PostgreSQL History Document

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:34:56PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Elein,
>
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, elein wrote:
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> >
> >
> >>The whole DataBlade mechanism was cool; I forget right off which DataBlade
> >>the
> >>full-text indexer in AOLserver used, but it was working in 1997 very well.
> >
> >
> >Note that postgres has the datablade "mechanism". It is only a matter of
> >marketing and packaging.  Anything Illustra did could be or is doable by
> >PostgreSQL.
>
> do you mean GiST ?
>

Not especially. Most things in contrib qualify as a "datablade".
As I said it was just a packaging and marketing thing.

elein

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