From: | Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su> |
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To: | Evgeny Gridasov <eugene(at)i-free(dot)ru> |
Cc: | Dan Harris <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Help optimizing a slow index scan |
Date: | 2006-03-19 06:26:24 |
Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.63.0603190925180.6686@ra.sai.msu.su |
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Evgeny Gridasov wrote:
> Try contrib/btree_gist.
contrib/btree_gist does nothing more than built-in btree - it's just
an support for multicolumn GiST indices.
> I've tried that one, but for my case it didn't help much.
> The performance was almost equal or even slower than built-in btree.
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:53:44 -0700
> Dan Harris <fbsd(at)drivefaster(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> Dan Harris wrote:
>>> Markus Bertheau wrote:
>>>> Have you tried using a GIST index on lat & long? These things are
>>>> meant for two-dimensional data, whereas btree doesn't handle
>>>> two-dimensional data that well. How many rows satisfy either of the
>>>> long / lat condition?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>> According to the analyze, less than 500 rows matched. I'll look into
>>> GIST indexes, thanks for the feedback.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
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>>
>> When I try to create a GIST index, I get the following error:
>>
>> create index eventgeo_lat_idx on eventgeo using GIST (lat);
>>
>> ERROR: data type double precision has no default operator class for
>> access method "gist"
>> HINT: You must specify an operator class for the index or define a
>> default operator class for the data type.
>>
>> I'm not sure what a "default operator class" is, exactly..
>>
>> -Dan
>>
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>
>
Regards,
Oleg
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