On 18th of December, Teodor Sigaev committed patch:
Introduce distance operators over cubes: <#> taxicab distance <-> euclidean distance <=> chebyshev distance Also add kNN support of those distances in GiST opclass. Author: Stas Kelvich
Continue reading Waiting for 9.6 – Cube extension kNN support
On 26th of March, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:
Add support for index-only scans in GiST. This adds a new GiST opclass method, 'fetch', which is used to reconstruct the original Datum from the value stored in the index. Also, the 'canreturn' index AM interface function gains a new 'attno' argument. That makes it possible to use index-only scans on a multi-column index where some of the opclasses support index-only scans but some do not. This patch adds support in the box and point opclasses. Other opclasses can added later as follow-on patches (btree_gist would be particularly interesting). Anastasia Lubennikova, with additional fixes and modifications by me.
Continue reading Waiting for 9.5 – Add support for index-only scans in GiST.
Today, I'd like to show you how you can use the same index for two different types of conditions. One that is using normal BTree indexing ( equal, less than, greater than ), and one that is using GIN/GiST index, for full text searching.
On 3rd of November, Heikki Linnakangas committed patch:
Support range DATA types. Selectivity estimation functions are missing FOR SOME range TYPE operators, which IS a TODO. Jeff Davis
On 4th of December, Tom Lane committed really cool patch:
KNNGIST, otherwise known as order-by-operator support for GIST.
This commit represents a rather heavily editorialized version of Teodor's builtin_knngist_itself-0.8.2 and builtin_knngist_proc-0.8.1 patches. I redid the opclass API to add a separate Distance method instead of turning the Consistent method into an illogical mess, fixed some bit-rot in the rbtree interfaces, and generally worked over the code style and comments. There's still no non-code documentation to speak of, but I'll work on that separately. Some contrib-module changes are also yet to come (right now, point <-> point is the only KNN-ified operator). Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane