Re: Finding matching ranges

From: Paul G. Brown <paul_geoffrey_brown_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 9 Jun 2001 16:41:35 -0700
Message-ID: <57da7b56.0106091541.247b462d@posting.google.com>

Martin Drautzburg <drautzburg_at_altavista.net> wrote in message news:<87elsuoeei.fsf_at_altavista.net>...
> I understand that most if not all solutions are only applicable if
> you build the RDBMS yourself. Are you aware of any method that would
> work (possibly in a suboptimal way) with just B-trees ?

Recent DBMS innovations have centered on making it possible to extend the DBMS without relying on the DBMS vendor engineers. Oracle have, for some time, been saying that they have extensible indexing. For example:

http://www.oradoc.com/ora817/inter.817/a85337/toc.htm

I would check it out. There should be no need to compromise.

Pb Received on Sat Jun 09 2001 - 18:41:35 CDT