[postgis-users] Can I build an index on combined non-spatial &spatial columns?

[Kemal Bayram]

I don't know about combining indexes but you want to include a spatial
operator such as && in addition to Distance so that you can take advantage
of an index on "the_geom".

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> Behalf Of M.A. (Thijs) van den Berg
> Sent: 18 March 2009 11:57
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: [postgis-users] Can I build an index on combined 
> non-spatial &spatial columns?
> 
> Suppose I want to speedup the following  type of queries with 
> an index:
> 
> SELECT the_geom, building_name
>   FROM buildings
>   WHERE Distance(the_geom, 'POINT(100312 102312)') < 5000
>   AND building_type = 'School'
> 
> Is that possible, and if not, why not? My current option is 
> to write my own index storage in C++, using a hashmap to 
> filter building_type, and build separate spatial indices for 
> each building type. Can I do something similar in postgresql? 
> Would my only option be to split the building_types into 
> separate tables?
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