Geometry Boost List: Re: [geometry] R-Tree to GIST

Subject: Re: [geometry] R-Tree to GIST
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-01-28 18:07:26

Hi Vladimir,

Vladimir Voznesensky wrote:
> Another strange question, please.
> Currently, rtree code deals with continious data values. Each value is 
> treated as a spatial coordinate. The question is: would it be painful 
> to treat some coodinates as 32, 64 or 128 bits bitsets? In other 
> words, is it possible to refactor R-Tree to Generalized Index Search Tree?
> Without messing too much the code, of course,

Sorry, but I'm not a GiST expert, besides this looks like a specific 
case. AFAIU you'd like to perform the indexing and querying differently 
than it's done by the R-tree. Could you please explain what would you 
like to do exactly?

Regards,
Adam