On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 06:28:23PM +0000, Matthew wrote:
> > SELECT * FROM table WHERE a > 1 AND b < 4;
>
> This sounds like something an R-tree can do.
I *know* that. However, Postgres (as far as I can see) doesn't provide a
simple R-tree index that will index two integers. This means I have to
write one myself. I'm asking whether it is possible to get two values into
a GiST index, which would allow me to implement this.
Matthew
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