David Hoksza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, could anybody tell me which variation of B-tree PostgreSQL uses, that
> it can handle more than one column?

Plain old b+ tree ... we just treat the keys as compound, ie the
"compare" operation compares columns until finding a difference.

> Some link would be great.

Use the source Luke ...

http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/access/nbtree/

                        regards, tom lane

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