Re: gist indexes for distance calculations

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc>
Cc: Marcelo Zabani <mzabani(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: gist indexes for distance calculations
Date: 2010-10-12 00:52:23
Message-ID: AANLkTinru5HiozuVy2ayUjjJVpbtnpuWw69XcF+k3ewC@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc> wrote:
> On 2010-09-30 20:33, Marcelo Zabani wrote:
>>
>> If you can also pinpoint me to where I can find this sort of information
>> (index utilization and planning, performance tuning), I'd be very
>> grateful.
>> Thank you already,
>>
>
> Isn't this what the knngist patches are for?
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=350
>
> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/knngist

Those are for when you want to order by distance; the OP is trying to
*filter* by distance, which is different.

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