pingcap/tidb

Support for SPATIAL functions, data types and indexes

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#6,347 opened on Apr 23, 2018

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We may reconsider the feature later. But it will be no early than the end of this year.

pingcap do not have plan for geo index https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/issues/673#issuecomment-251132927, I am interested in adding this feature to tidb, so Is there anyone else interested or working on this?

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Research direction
Study MySQL's spatial extensions, understand TiDB's AST and executor for integrating spatial functions and index types.
Tech stack
go
Domain
databasebackend
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Feature
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4
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Over 1 week
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Stale
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Mostly clear
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GoSQLDatabase Internals
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20