Re: GiST indexing tuples

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Matthew <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org> writes:
>> This sounds like something an R-tree can do.

> I *know* that. However, Postgres (as far as I can see) doesn't provide a
> simple R-tree index that will index two integers. This means I have to
> write one myself. I'm asking whether it is possible to get two values into
> a GiST index, which would allow me to implement this.

Have you looked at contrib/seg/ ?

			regards, tom lane