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To: Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: STORAGE and GiST 
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Comments: In-reply-to Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com> writes:
> Does anyone know of any examples of using STORAGE with GiST?

[ greps... ] contrib/btree_gist, contrib/rtree_gist, contrib/ltree,
contrib/tsearch all seem to use that option.  I believe the point
is to store a different datatype in the index than is used in the
column being indexed.

			regards, tom lane