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+  <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> stands for Generalized Inverted Index.
+  <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> is designed for handling cases where the items
+  to be indexed are composite values, and the queries to be handled by
+  the index need to search for element values that appear within
+  the composite items.  For example, the items could be documents,
+  and the queries could be searches for documents containing specific words.
+ </p><p>
+  We use the word <em class="firstterm">item</em> to refer to a composite value that
+  is to be indexed, and the word <em class="firstterm">key</em> to refer to an element
+  value.  <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> always stores and searches for keys,
+  not item values per se.
+ </p><p>
+  A <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> index stores a set of (key, posting list) pairs,
+  where a <em class="firstterm">posting list</em> is a set of row IDs in which the key
+  occurs.  The same row ID can appear in multiple posting lists, since
+  an item can contain more than one key.  Each key value is stored only
+  once, so a <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> index is very compact for cases
+  where the same key appears many times.
+ </p><p>
+  <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> is generalized in the sense that the
+  <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> access method code does not need to know the
+  specific operations that it accelerates.
+  Instead, it uses custom strategies defined for particular data types.
+  The strategy defines how keys are extracted from indexed items and
+  query conditions, and how to determine whether a row that contains
+  some of the key values in a query actually satisfies the query.
+ </p><p>
+  One advantage of <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> is that it allows the development
+  of custom data types with the appropriate access methods, by
+  an expert in the domain of the data type, rather than a database expert.
+  This is much the same advantage as using <acronym class="acronym">GiST</acronym>.
+ </p><p>
+  The <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym>
+  implementation in <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> is primarily
+  maintained by Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov. There is more
+  information about <acronym class="acronym">GIN</acronym> on their
+  <a class="ulink" href="http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/Gin" target="_top">website</a>.
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