diff and advantages of contrib/tree & contrib/ltree

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#1Thomas T. Thai
tom@minnesota.com

What is the difference of contrib/tree & contrib/ltree? Any advantage of
using one over the other?

#2Oleg Bartunov
oleg@sai.msu.su
In reply to: Thomas T. Thai (#1)
Re: diff and advantages of contrib/tree & contrib/ltree

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Thomas T. Thai wrote:

What is the difference of contrib/tree & contrib/ltree? Any advantage of
using one over the other?

contrib/tree was never officially released ! contrib/ltree uses similar
idea of labeled path to represent a node, but didn't requires labels
to be consists of [0-9]. That gave us much more flexibility and
full text search operations.

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