[postgis-users] Where does Postgres end and PostGIS begin?

[Aren Cambre]

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 <forkandwait at 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.
>
>
>
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