[postgis-users] Seeking Funding for Faster PostGIS Indexes

[Eli Adam]

Any progress since the end of last year when I asked about the option to contribute to PostGIS through OSGeo?

Thanks, Eli

>>> On 6/9/2011 at 1:20 PM, in message
<BANLkTi=KyjUJgFFdJ14AHNt=jP6=bjweQQ at mail.gmail.com>, Paul Ramsey
<pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
> This is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to make your PostGIS an
> order of magnitude faster... I'm surprised there has been so little
> response!
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
>> One of the eye-opening talks of PgCon last week was the presentation
>> from Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev on their work on spatial
>> partitioning indexes in PostgreSQL. Oleg and Teodor are the
>> maintainers of the GiST framework we use for our r-tree, and are
>> proposing a new framework to allow quad-tree and kd-tree
>> implementations in PostgreSQL.
>>
>> http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html 
>>
>> The upshot is, this new approach is as much as 6-times faster than the
>> r-tree (at least for points). If you're interested in seeing PostGIS
>> indexes get vastly faster, consider funding this project. Get in touch
>> with me directly for details.
>>
>> http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/05/27/pgcon-notes-3/ 
>>
>> P.
>>
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