65.5. Examples

65.5. Examples
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The PostgreSQL source distribution includes several examples of index methods implemented using GiST . The core system currently provides text search support (indexing for tsvector and tsquery ) as well as R-Tree equivalent functionality for some of the built-in geometric data types (see src/backend/access/gist/gistproc.c ). The following contrib modules also contain GiST operator classes:

btree_gist: B-tree equivalent functionality for several data types
cube: Indexing for multidimensional cubes
hstore: Module for storing (key, value) pairs
intarray: RD-Tree for one-dimensional array of int4 values
ltree: Indexing for tree-like structures
pg_trgm: Text similarity using trigram matching
seg: Indexing for " float ranges "

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