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

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, David,

"David William Bitner" <david.bitner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I regard this as misuse, and I think that an appropriate time interval
type would be better for this.


Regards,
Markus

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