On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 08:50 +0530, IYENGAR SURESH PARTHASARATHY wrote: > i want to fully understand the functioning of postgres indexes with > respect to the code. See src/backend/access/ in the source tree, specifically the nbtree/, hash/, gist/ and index/ subdirectories -- each directory has a README with some additional information. Personally I find the hash index code easiest to understand, although it has the fewest features. -Neil