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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2021-03-10 17:03:10 -0500
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C comments: improve description of GiST NSN and GistBuildLSN
GiST indexes are complex, so adding more details in the code might help someone. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210302164021.GA364@momjian.us
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@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ GiST stands for Generalized Search Tree. It was introduced in the seminal paper
Jeffrey F. Naughton, Avi Pfeffer:
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/papers/gist.ps
+ https://dsf.berkeley.edu/papers/sigmod97-gist.pdf
and implemented by J. Hellerstein and P. Aoki in an early version of
PostgreSQL (more details are available from The GiST Indexing Project