On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Alexander Korotkov <aekorot...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to ask you about currency of the work above. I propose to > develop functionality of GIN and GiST q-gram indexes with following > features: > 1) Handle edit distance (e.g. levenshtein distance) and LIKE/ILIKE > queries(using GIN partial match if no full q-grams can be extracted > from wildcard) > 2) Support of various q > 3) Support of positional q-grams in GIN (for more effective edit > distance filtering) > 4) Various signature size in GiST > As you can see, there are some significant differences from pg_trgm. > Do you see this functionality useful? If you think this functionality > useful, where do you like to see it: separate project, contrib module, > core (of course, in the case when code have sufficient quality)? > I have stong confidence level about implementability of this project > in few month. That's why I could propose this as an GSoC project.
I'm afraid I don't know this code well enough to give you any meaningful feedback, but I hope someone will. All - note that Alexander has contributed a number of patches in this area previously that have been committed, so it'd be great if we can do our part to help him continue contributing. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
