Finding points within 50 miles

From: CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Finding points within 50 miles
Date: 2005-06-26 23:40:03
Message-ID: 20050626234003.59478.qmail@web52903.mail.yahoo.com
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If I have a table of items with latitude and longitude
coordinates, is it possible to find all other items
that are within, say, 50 miles of an item, using the
geometric functions
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-geometry.html)?
If so, how?

Thanks,
CSN

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