-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/gin/README,v 1.5 2008/03/20 17:55:14 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/gin/README,v 1.6 2008/07/08 03:25:42 neilc Exp $
Gin for PostgreSQL
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B-tree over item pointers (PT, posting tree), or a list of item pointers
(PL, posting list) if the tuple is small enough.
-Note: There is no delete operation for ET. The reason for this is that from
-our experience, a set of unique words over a large collection change very
+Note: There is no delete operation for ET. The reason for this is that in
+our experience, the set of distinct words in a large corpus changes very
rarely. This greatly simplifies the code and concurrency algorithms.
Gin comes with built-in support for one-dimensional arrays (eg. integer[],
Such queries usually contain very frequent lexemes, so the results are not
very helpful. To facilitate execution of such queries Gin has a configurable
-soft upper limit of the size of the returned set, determined by the
+soft upper limit on the size of the returned set, determined by the
'gin_fuzzy_search_limit' GUC variable. This is set to 0 by default (no
limit).