Re:

On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 10:45:33 -0500
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>
> Cc: vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 
> 
> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > btw, is there a restriction to length of key in GiST in 7.1 ?
> 
> Index tuples still have to fit in a block --- no TOAST table for
> an index (yet).

not a good news. indexing and quering sets requires much more length.
is there plan to do this ?

> 
> I think we can compress index datums in-line though; at least that
> should work in principle.

we could use loosy compression of GiST indices.
regards,
    Oleg

> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

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