F.2. btree_gist

btree_gist is a B-Tree implementation using GiST that supports the int2, int4, int8, float4, float8 timestamp with/without time zone, time with/without time zone, date, interval, oid, money, macaddr, char, varchar/text, bytea, numeric, bit, varbit and inet/cidr types.

F.2.1. Example usage

   CREATE TABLE test (a int4);
   -- create index
   CREATE INDEX testidx ON test USING gist (a);
   -- query
   SELECT * FROM test WHERE a < 10;
  

F.2.2. Authors

All work was done by Teodor Sigaev () , Oleg Bartunov (), Janko Richter (). See http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist for additional information.