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• chris_wot 13y ago
  From what I can tell, this has been patented, but was implemented in part by Postgres much earlier.
  • leif 13y ago
    I promise it hasn't, but I'm curious to see what you're talking about. Link?
    • chris_wot 13y ago
      See this thread: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/511BDCAB.2080803@agliodbs.com http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/511BDCAB.2080803@agliod...
      • leif 13y ago
        That thread is talking about the possible inclusion of our indexing library inside Postgres, and was from before we had open sourced the code. IANAL but I think it would be possible to include the fractal tree library in Postgres now if someone wanted to do it, but none of it has ever been implemented by Postgres.
        • chris_wot 13y ago
          I stand corrected! Thanks for the info.