My thanks are primarily to Prof. Joe Hellerstein

(<ulink url="http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/jmh/"></ulink>) for elucidating the

gist of the GiST (<ulink url="http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/"></ulink>), and

to his former student, Andy Dong (<ulink

url="http://best.me.berkeley.edu/~adong/"></ulink>), for his example

written for Illustra,

<ulink url="http://best.berkeley.edu/~adong/rtree/index.html"></ulink>.

to his former student Andy Dong for his example written for Illustra.

I am also grateful to all Postgres developers, present and past, for

enabling myself to create my own world and live undisturbed in it. And I

would like to acknowledge my gratitude to Argonne Lab and to the