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From: Jeff Hoffmann <jeff@propertykey.com>
To: zardozrocks <zardozrocks@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Simple query, 10 million records...MySQL ten times faster
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:40:17 -0500
Message-ID: <46311C41.4000906@propertykey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177450006.547698.120920@u32g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
References: <1177450006.547698.120920@u32g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

zardozrocks wrote:
> I have this table:
> 
> CREATE TABLE test_zip_assoc (
>     id serial NOT NULL,
>     f_id integer DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL,
>     lat_radians numeric(6,5) DEFAULT 0.00000 NOT NULL,
>     long_radians numeric(6,5) DEFAULT 0.00000 NOT NULL
> );
> CREATE INDEX lat_radians ON test_zip_assoc USING btree (lat_radians);
> CREATE INDEX long_radians ON test_zip_assoc USING btree
> (long_radians);

Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't it be easier to just use 
PostGIS?  Or failing that, using the vanilla built-in point type and an 
r-tree index?  That's what r-tree indexes are made for.

-- 
Jeff Hoffmann
Head Plate Spinner
PropertyKey.com



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