On 04/05/2017 12:04 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 00:05:31 -0400,
 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> writes:
... I create both a normal gist index and an exclude index using the
following:
CREATE INDEX contains ON iplocation USING gist (network inet_ops);
ALTER TABLE iplocation
  ADD CONSTRAINT overlap EXCLUDE USING gist (network inet_ops WITH &&);

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.

No, that manually-created index is completely redundant with the
constraint index.

Thanks.

P.S. Using spgist with version 10 for the exclude index is much faster than using gist in 9.6. I have run the index creation for as long as 6 hours and it hasn't completed with 9.6. It took less than 10 minutes to create it in 10. For this project using 10 isn't a problem and I'll be doing that.


That's an incredible difference.  Is it believable? Same resource, etc?



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