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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml index 84273b4ffc5..b858b1e8480 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ with more on different indexing and sorting schemes at And there is more interesting reading at the Berkely database site at <ULink url="http://epoch.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/">http://epoch.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/</ULink>. - +</para> <Para> <Note> @@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ on GiST. Hopefully we will learn more in the future and update this information. - thomas 1998-03-01 </Para> </Note> - +</para> <Para> Well, I can't say I quite understand what's going on, but at least I (almost) succeeded in porting GiST examples to linux. The GiST access method is already in the postgres tree (<FileName>src/backend/access/gist</FileName>). - +</para> <Para> <ULink url="ftp://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/gist/pggist/pggist.tgz">Examples at Berkeley</ULink> come with an overview of the methods and demonstrate spatial index @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ERROR: cannot open pix (PostgreSQL 6.3 Sun Feb 1 14:57:30 EST 1998) </ProgramListing> - +</para> <Para> I could not get sense of this error message; it appears to be something we'd rather ask the developers about (see also Note 4 below). What I @@ -64,28 +64,28 @@ would suggest here is that someone of you linux guys (linux==gcc?) fetch the original sources quoted above and apply my patch (see attachment) and tell us what you feel about it. Looks cool to me, but I would not like to hold it up while there are so many competent people around. - +</para> <Para> A few notes on the sources: - +</para> <Para> 1. I failed to make use of the original (HPUX) Makefile and rearranged the Makefile from the ancient postgres95 tutorial to do the job. I tried to keep it generic, but I am a very poor makefile writer -- just did some monkey work. Sorry about that, but I guess it is now a little more portable that the original makefile. - +</para> <Para> 2. I built the example sources right under pgsql/src (just extracted the tar file there). The aforementioned Makefile assumes it is one level below pgsql/src (in our case, in pgsql/src/pggist). - +</para> <Para> 3. The changes I made to the *.c files were all about #include's, function prototypes and typecasting. Other than that, I just threw away a bunch of unused vars and added a couple parentheses to please gcc. I hope I did not screw up too much :) - +</para> <Para> 4. There is a comment in polyproc.sql: @@ -98,11 +98,11 @@ A few notes on the sources: <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> versions back and tried the query. My system went nuts and I had to shoot down the postmaster in about ten minutes. - +</para> <Para> I will continue to look into GiST for a while, but I would also appreciate more examples of R-tree usage. - +</para> </Chapter> |