Will PostGIS have a release that supports Postgres 9.1 and the new GIST index when 9.1 comes out?
Aren On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:34 PM, forkandwait <forkandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ragi Burhum <rburhum <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > Brent and Sean are correct. Nevertheless, it is worth noting that if you > are > trying to do k nearest neighbor queries, PostgreSQL 9.1 has much better > (as in > orders of magnitude) indexing support for this particular scenario. > See http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2010/12/11/waiting-for-9-1-knngist/ > > It is worth noting that the "geometry" native to postgres is very useful > for > building tricky multidimensional indices and getting distances in a sort of > "state space" analysis. > > For actual mapping of stuff on the ground, Postgis is way more appropriate. > > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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