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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2024 10:36:04 +0100
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>,
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Subject: Re: pgsql: Add template for adaptive radix tree
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On 2024-Mar-07, John Naylor wrote:

> Understandably so. FWIW, the use case proposed by the authors was for
> secondary indexes within in-memory databases, not as a type of
> associative array. I'm unable to find patents for the thing itself,
> but IANAL. I believe I've been in contact with some of the same
> authors about a different subject, and they seemed open to people
> trying to implement their ideas (it was a different paper, to be sure,
> and unfortunately I no longer email account).

Well, surely we can email them.  Their profiles show they're still
active.
https://db.in.tum.de/people/sites/kemper/?lang=en
https://db.in.tum.de/people/sites/neumann/?lang=en
https://db.in.tum.de/people/sites/leis/?lang=en

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Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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