From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Tim Perdue <tim@perdue.net>
Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Latitude / Longitude
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:19:11 -0400
Message-ID: <3D8201EF.CB5F3BD6@Yahoo.com> (raw)
References: <20020912124426.A27570@mail.perdue.net>
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<20020912144957.F27651@mail.perdue.net>
Tim Perdue wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:49:21PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Look at contrib/earthdistance, I **think** it does what you need.
>
> Thanks, yeah this starts to get me into the realm of what I need. It still
> has to run every possible permutation to figure out which one is closest for
> each postalcode. What I'll do is run that once and build a 3rd table which can
> be used to join the other two together using a view.
That third table should be maintained by triggers and
constraints, no?
Jan
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