That's my PERL heritage sneaking in, sorry. bobb
>>> Stephen Woodbridge <wood...@swoodbridge.com> wrote: This makes indexing somewhat problematic. And if you try this in SQL '&&' is NOT the same as 'AND', it is a spatial comparison. -Steve On 3/7/2012 12:36 PM, Bob Basques wrote: > If the polygons are always going to be level (as indicated below) and > non-rotated, you might be better off just using a regular Tabular select > (and non-spatial geom) and use the minx,miny,max,may numbers directly. > > > if (x > minx && x < max && y > miny && y < maxy) then true. . . . > > > Maybe build a view of the bounding corners as numeric columns and try > some simple queries to test. . . . Sometimes the spatial stuff is just > that much overhead for certain queries. > > > bobb > > > > >>> DrYSG <ygutfre...@draper.com> wrote: > > I have a table with 21 Million Rows. The Geometry field is a simple > rectangular bounding box (Polygon with 4 corners). > > Users will be doing executing queries to find all overlapping rows to a user > supplied rectangle. I have been finding that my naive query of: > > SELECT * > FROM portal.metadata as cat > WHERE ST_Overlaps(cat.location,ST_GeomFromText('POLYGON((-70.9433962 > 41.5384615,-72.5283019 41.5384615,-72.5283019 41.1538462,-70.9433962 > 41.1538462,-70.9433962 41.5384615))', 4326)); > > Can take up to 40 seconds on a cold location. However, an ST_Contains query > of a point is only about 8 seconds. Yes, location is indexed using GIST. > > CREATE INDEX catalog_location_idx > ON portal.catalog > USING gist > (location ); > > Now, it first stuck me as odd that it was taking more than 4 times the point > query to discover overlap. Then I thought about it, and I can see cases > where there ST_Overlaps cannot assume certain geometries. > > I am now considering doing a WHERE clause that checks for ST_Contains for > both the Top-Left and Bottom-Right corners of the QueryRectangle since I > know that all bboxes in the DB are rectangular. > > But I thought I would see what those with knowledge of the internals of the > spatial functions have to say. > > Ideas? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://postgis.17.n6.nabble.com/ST-Overlaps-and-performance-tp4555465p4555465.html > Sent from the PostGIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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