> Hi all,
>
> I need to implement "Find all hospitals in a 5 mile radius". Say I have
all
> the coordinates on them stored in a table with the fields longitude and
> latitude. Has anybody some sample code for that?
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>

Here's a plpgsql function that will do what you need. You might also look at
the earthdistance code in contrib if you'd rather have a C function.

HTH,

Joe

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