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Note: The following description applies both to Postgres-XC and PostgreSQL if not described explicitly.
The Postgres-XC source distribution includes several examples of index methods implemented using GiST. The core system currently provides text search support (indexing for tsvector and tsquery) as well as R-Tree equivalent functionality for some of the built-in geometric data types (see src/backend/access/gist/gistproc.c). The following contrib modules also contain GiST operator classes:
B-tree equivalent functionality for several data types
Indexing for multidimensional cubes
Module for storing (key, value) pairs
RD-Tree for one-dimensional array of int4 values
Indexing for tree-like structures
Text similarity using trigram matching
Indexing for "float ranges"