On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 18:18 -0500, John Major wrote:
> #I am a biologist, and work with large datasets (tables with millions of
> rows are common).
> #These datasets often can be simplified as features with a name, and a
> start and end position (ie: a range along a number line. GeneX is on
> some chromosome from position 10->40)
Do you know about www.biopostgres.org ?
I believe they provide some additional indexing mechanisms for just this
type of data.
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Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com