On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 00:17, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Don,
>
> does your approach handle directed graphs ( DAG ) ?
> Actually our module is just a result of our research for new
> data type which could handle DAGs ( yahoo, dmoz -like hierarchies)
> effectively in PostgreSQL.
Why not use intarray's instead of (n=6)bit-arrays?
Is it just space savings ( 64(0) of anything is enough ;) ) or something
more fundamental ?
> While we didn't find a solution we decided to release this module
> because 64 children would quite ok for many people.
> Of course, 128 would be better :-)
4294967296 would be enough for almost everybody :)
> How about 'move' operation in your approach ?
I have not looked at his code long enough but it seems to still need
replacing all child nodes bitarray tails ...
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Hannu
