Re: "external indices" ...

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
>> Marc,
>> 
>> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I believe that this is what Oleg et al tap into with the tsearch2 stuff, 
>>> no? I have someone asking me about it, and want to make sure that I'm 
>>> telling him the right answer ... is this what GiST is?  And, if so, what 
>>> is a *good* doc for me to point them at to get up to speed with it?  Is 
>>> what we have in the docs the best place, or is there something someone 
>>> else has written that gets into it even more?
>> 
>> I'm a little bit confused, because I couldn't catch your meaning :)
>
> tsearch2 is an external indexing method, no?  external in that it isn't 
> intergrated as part of PostgreSQL, but is added on ... with the 'add on' 
> being through the GiST framework ... right ?

I think, that guy asked about if tsearch2 is an external program  which
running as a separate process.

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