Thanks, Guy, that is the Cube patch I referenced in my reply earlier today. At this point I'd rather not have to build a custom copy of Postgres to get this functionality, especially if I plan to deploy this app to a hosting provider like Heroku.
That assumes I correctly understand what a "patch" is, so if I'm off the mark please enlighten me. On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Guyren Howe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a solution to a search problem and want to survey the > community to see if anyone else has dealt with this type of search. > > The application I'm building supports an image processing system. We have > a mathematical way of uniquely representing any particular image as a > vector of 16 values, each ranging between 0 and 255. > > I need to implement a search mechanism that finds the closest matches to a > given image, also represented as a 16 element vector. This is usually > called a "vector space model" search, and it's implemented for full text > search in Postgres as well as Lucene, and probably many other full text > search systems. > > > This might be *exactly* what you're looking for: > > < > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected] > > > > Regards, > > Guyren G Howe > Relevant Logic LLC > > guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com ~ +1 512 784 3178 > > Ruby/Rails, Xojo, PHP programming > PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting > Technical writing and training > > Read my book, Real OOP with REALbasic: < > http://relevantlogic.com/oop-book/about-the-oop-book.php> > > -- > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sdruby/eIfin-w6eD4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
