[postgis-devel] Re: [postgis-users] create tables smarter
Markus Schaber
schabi at logix-tt.com
Fri Jun 6 08:47:01 PDT 2008
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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