Re: [GENERAL] GiST indeices on range types

2015-04-01 Thread RĂ©mi Cura
As far as I understand it (not much), gist index over spatial data is in fact gist index over range(x), range(y). This is why Gist works in n-dimension. It always works on range (conceptually). In fact rectangle are the intersection of a range on x and a range on y (literally) same, a 3D box is t

Re: [GENERAL] GiST indeices on range types

2015-04-01 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Rebecca Zahra wrote: > Good morning, > > I am Rebecca Zahra and I am currently in my final year of Masters studies > at the University of Malta. My thesis is about the usage of indexes for > multi-dimensional data. > > I was going through the posts regarding GIST

Re: [GENERAL] GiST indeices on range types

2015-03-31 Thread Rebecca Zahra
Good morning, I am Rebecca Zahra and I am currently in my final year of Masters studies at the University of Malta. My thesis is about the usage of indexes for multi-dimensional data. I was going through the posts regarding GIST indexes and I came across the following http://dba.stackexchange.com