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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: John Major <major@cbio.mskcc.org>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Help w/speeding up range queries?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:59:47 +0000
Message-ID: <1162465187.3587.294.camel@silverbirch.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4547D9CE.2040705@cbio.mskcc.org>
References: <4547D9CE.2040705@cbio.mskcc.org>

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:18 -0500, John Major wrote:

> #I am a biologist, and work with large datasets (tables with millions of 
> rows are common).
> #These datasets often can be simplified as features with a name, and a 
> start and end position (ie:  a range along a number line.  GeneX is on 
> some chromosome from position 10->40)

Do you know about www.biopostgres.org ?

I believe they provide some additional indexing mechanisms for just this
type of data.

-- 
  Simon Riggs             
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com





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