Re: compress method for spgist - 2

>> Poorly, by hanging boxes that straddled dividing lines off the parent
>> node in a big linear list. The hope would be that the case was
> Ok, I see, but that's not really what I was wondering. My question is this:
> SP-GiST partitions the space into non-overlapping sections. How can you store
> polygons - which can overlap - in an SP-GiST index? And how does the compress
> method help with that?

I believe if we found a way to index boxes then we will need a compress method 
to build index over polygons.

BTW, we are working on investigation a index structure for box where 2d-box is 
treated as 4d-point.


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