Re: [SQL] Latitude / Longitude

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc: Tim Perdue <tim(at)perdue(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Latitude / Longitude
Date: 2002-09-12 19:46:51
Message-ID: 20020912194651.GA9901@wolff.to
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:49:21 -0500,
Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> wrote:
> Look at contrib/earthdistance, I **think** it does what you need.

There isn't an index for the distance operator. You can use boxes to
limit the candidates if there is a small bound on how far apart points
can be before they are no longer candidates for a match even if they
are a nearest neighbor pair.

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