Thanks to everyone for all the thoughtful responses. They have been incredibly helpful.
Ended up optimizing per Lee, and creating buckets per Tom. Thanks again. On Oct 25, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Ty Busby wrote: I have a table that stores a very large starting number called epc_start_numeric and a quantity. I've apparently built the most inefficient query possible for doing the job I need: find out if any records overlap. Imagine the epc_start_numeric + quantity representing a block of numbers. I need to find out if any of these blocks overlap. -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
