On Thursday, June 7, 2012, Simon Riggs wrote: > I know Oleg has been discussing quad trees for years now, so SP-GIST > sounds like a great feature. > > The docs on SP-GIST simply suggest people read the code, which is way > below our normal standard of documentation. >
It's the same we have for normal GiST indexes, no? It's under "internals", I think it's ok in there. CREATE INDEX contains no examples involving SP-GIST indexes. > > It seems likely that the first thing a user will ask is When can I use > it? How do I create one? When should I use it in comparison with > existing methods? > This is the problem though - it only has internals documentation, and no end-user documentation. Not sure GiST has that much end-user documentation either. And it is included in things like the FTI docs. > ISTM that if we mention this as a major feature in 9.2, and I think we > should, that there should be something more about these in the shared > docs. > +1, it should definitely get some more docs if possible. //Magnus -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
