This section provides an overview of the page format used within PostgreSQL tables and indexes.[1] Sequences

SP-GiST offers an interface with a high level of abstraction, requiring the access method developer to implement only methods specific to

This section provides an overview of TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique).

GIN assumes that indexable operators are strict. This means that extractValue will not be called at all on

GiST stands for Generalized Search Tree. It is a balanced, tree-structured access method, that acts as a base template in which to implement

The core PostgreSQL distribution includes the BRIN operator classes shown in Table 64-1.

Create vs. insert Insertion into a GIN index can be slow due to the likelihood of many keys

GIN stands for Generalized Inverted Index. GIN is designed for handling cases where the items to be indexed

SP-GiST is an abbreviation for space-partitioned GiST. SP-GiST supports

The genetic algorithm (GA) is a heuristic optimization method which operates through randomized search. The set of possible solutions for