Hi Ayoub, Il giorno mer 7 apr 2021 alle ore 17:29 FATIHI Ayoub < ayoubfatihi1...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> Hi postgres community, > I am willing to participate in GSoC to speed up the build of the gist > index in postgis, which is based on postgresql. > And I need to know *everything* about the GiST API. > To do so I need to acquire the necessary theory and concepts to start this > journey. > I do not have a computer science background, I have little knowledge about > machines and I code in Python (for scientific computation, data science and > ml). > So I am asking what I should learn to complete in an efficient way this > task at hand: speeding up the build of gist index, if possible how much > time is needed to accomplish each task. > The main thing you have to know IMO is the concept of "extensibility of indexes" in PostgreSQL. More specifically about GiST, you can have a look here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/gist-extensibility.html Here there's also a note about the new added method of the API sortsupport, which is what you need for your task. Giuseppe.
