On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.com> writes: >> I suggested a couple of algorithms to be implemented in MADLib(apart >> from K Medoids). You could pick some(or all) of them, which would >> require 3 months to be completed. > >> As for more information on index, you can refer > >> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What's_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1 > >> along with the postgres wiki. The wiki is the standard for anything postgres. > >> pg_trgm used KNN, but I believe it uses its own implementation of the >> algorithm. The idea I proposed aims at writing an implementation in >> the MADlib so that any client program can use the algorithm(s) in >> their code directly, using MADlib functions. > > I'm a bit confused as to why this is being proposed as a > Postgres-related project. I don't even know what MADlib is, but I'm > pretty darn sure that no part of Postgres uses it. KNNGist certainly > doesn't.
It's a reasonably well established extension for Postgres for statistical and machine learning methods. Rather neat, but as you indicate, it's not part of Postgres proper. http://madlib.net/ https://github.com/madlib/madlib/ -- fdr -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
