[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] create tables smarter

[David William Bitner]

One use in adding 1-dimension support would be to make it easier for folks
who are using postgis for non-spatial utility for using the GIST indexing.
For example there are some people throwing time as a unix epoch into PostGIS
in order to do efficient time period overlaps queries.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Markus Schaber <schabi at logix-tt.com> wrote:

> Hi, Stephen,
>
> Stephen Frost <sfrost at snowman.net> wrote:
>
> > * Markus Schaber (schabi at logix-tt.com) wrote:
> > > Stephen Frost <sfrost at snowman.net> wrote:
> > > > There are only 3 *options* currently, that being 2, 3, and 4.  I
> don't
> > > > believe we have 1-dimension support, or would ever want it, and it
> seems
> > > > pretty unlikely we'd have 5 but we have support to go there if we
> really
> > > > want to...
> > >
> > > The 4th option, actually, is "don't care", and I don't want to lose
> > > that one.
> >
> > Fair enough, do we ever expect to add 5th dimension support, or can we
> > keep it in 2 bits?
>
> I'd keep it in 2 bits, but keep some bits reserved for future
> extensions.
>
> Regards,
> Markus
>
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