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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Martin Schäfer <Martin.Schaefer@cadcorp.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to find out programmatically whether a query on a view will use an index?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:40:23 -0600
Message-ID: <20050125174023.GA13418@wolff.to> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37936EEC582B394A9E1AA951991A551609D274@dev001_pdc.Dev.cadcorp.net>
References: <37936EEC582B394A9E1AA951991A551609D274@dev001_pdc.Dev.cadcorp.net>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 16:34:09 -0000,
  Martin Schäfer <Martin.Schaefer@cadcorp.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm using the PostGIS spatial extension. Some of my spatial queries (like 
> live zooming and panning) should only be performed when the column 
> containing the spatial data is spatially indexed, otherwise the first query 
> takes almost forever and users will just kill the application out of 
> frustration.

If the real problem is long running queries, maybe using a statement timeout
will solve your problem?



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