libGiST, v.0.9b1

Welcome to release 0.9 beta 1 of the GiST C++ library. This document should help you get the code installed, and get you writing your own index code quickly.

Table of Contents

• README: licensing information
• Installation guide
• Guided tour of the code
• Contributors

Related Material

• libGiST home page: the latest info on libGiST
• GiST for Postgres95: a GiST access method implementation for the Postgres95 ORDBMS
• GiST Research Project Home Page: The main WWW source for updates, documentation, and research results on GiST-based indexing research and software.
• Other database projects at UC-Berkeley: including the Mariposa DDBMS, the Tioga visualization project, Online Aggregation research, and prior work including INGRES and POSTGRES

Comments, questions and suggestions may be directed to gist@postgres.berkeley.edu