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GiST Indexes Improved for PostgreSQL 8.1

Refractions Research has led a project to fund the improvement of locking and concurrency in the PostgreSQL GiST index subsystem. The improvements will dramatically improve read/write performance of PostGIS starting with the PostgreSQL 8.1 release. The press release has details on the funding consortium and developers.