On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
> On Thursday 12 June 2003 10:59, you wrote:
> > What does GiST mean? Why isn't the acronymn explained on the front page of
> > the GiST site? And GBORG also, for that matter?
> >
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> It stands for Genralized Search Tree.
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> I don't know why there is not a definition at the "top" ... ask Oleg and
> Teodor.
>
ok,
actually, GiST is a play on words. Think about "The Gist of PostgreSQL".
'gist' was guessed by son of Joseph Hellerstein - the inventor of GiST.
> There is however a link on the main page to the GiST indexing project from
> Berkley University.
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> Andy
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