I am trying to load a database with about 3.5 million records relating
netblocks to locations. I currently don't know whether or not any of the
netblocks overlap. If they don't, then I can simplify queries that
find the locations of IP addresses.
I create the table as follows:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS iplocation;
CREATE TABLE iplocation (
network INET NOT NULL,
geoname_id INT,
registered_country_geoname_id INT,
represented_country_geoname_id INT,
is_anonymous_proxy BOOLEAN NOT NULL,
is_satellite_provider BOOLEAN NOT NULL,
postal_code TEXT,
latitude DOUBLE PRECISION,
longitude DOUBLE PRECISION,
accuracy_radius DOUBLE PRECISION
);
Then I load the table with /copy.
Then I create both a normal gist index and an exclude index using the
following:
DROP INDEX IF EXISTS contains;
CREATE INDEX contains ON iplocation USING gist (network inet_ops);
ANALYZE VERBOSE iplocation;
ALTER TABLE iplocation
ADD CONSTRAINT overlap EXCLUDE USING gist (network inet_ops WITH &&)
;
So far the exclude index hasn't finished being created.
But I am wondering if it is useful to have the normal gist index for
finding netblocks containing a specific IP address, as it seems like the
exclude index should be usable for that as well.
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