On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Teodor Sigaev <teo...@sigaev.ru> wrote: >>> 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.
There has been no activity on this patch for some time now, and a new patch version has not been submitted, so I am marking it as return with feedback. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
