Re: Advice on geolocation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Roderick A. Anderson
Subject Re: Advice on geolocation
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0207261049050.27270-100000@main.cyber-office.net
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In response to Re: Advice on geolocation  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

[snip]

> My concern about this is that it will not be indexable. I suspect, but don't
> know, that this won't really be an issue for the small number (~5000) points
> of data (especially since I expect other constraints to be used in most
> queries).

Bruno,  check out PostGIS a bit more.  I believe you'll find that a lot of
the fuctionality you're wanting is there or coming soon.  I think there is
even a distance function.


Rod
--
  "Open Source Software - Sometimes you get more than you paid for..."


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