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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-11-07 17:36:47 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2005-11-07 17:36:47 +0000
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R-tree is dead ... long live GiST.
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diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c
index dddfaa3dbc4..9aa33831379 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
*
*
* IDENTIFICATION
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c,v 1.24 2004/12/31 22:01:22 pgsql Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c,v 1.25 2005/11/07 17:36:45 tgl Exp $
*
* XXX These are totally bogus. Perhaps someone will make them do
* something reasonable, someday.
@@ -22,19 +22,19 @@
/*
- * Selectivity functions for rtrees. These are bogus -- unless we know
- * the actual key distribution in the index, we can't make a good prediction
- * of the selectivity of these operators.
+ * Selectivity functions for geometric operators. These are bogus -- unless
+ * we know the actual key distribution in the index, we can't make a good
+ * prediction of the selectivity of these operators.
*
* Note: the values used here may look unreasonably small. Perhaps they
* are. For now, we want to make sure that the optimizer will make use
- * of an r-tree index if one is available, so the selectivity had better
+ * of a geometric index if one is available, so the selectivity had better
* be fairly small.
*
- * In general, rtrees need to search multiple subtrees in order to guarantee
+ * In general, GiST needs to search multiple subtrees in order to guarantee
* that all occurrences of the same key have been found. Because of this,
* the estimated cost for scanning the index ought to be higher than the
- * output selectivity would indicate. rtcostestimate(), over in selfuncs.c,
+ * output selectivity would indicate. gistcostestimate(), over in selfuncs.c,
* ought to be adjusted accordingly --- but until we can generate somewhat
* realistic numbers here, it hardly matters...
*/