[Geoserver-devel] [postgis-users] Re: Postgis estimated_extent completely off the mark?

[Jonne Savolainen]

On 3/20/07, strk at refractions.net <strk at refractions.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 08:52:05AM -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> > Once again I wonder why we're not pulling the extent off of the top
> > node of the index.
>
> Again, it's a feature !
> You don't need to have an index defined in order to use
> 'estimated_extent'.


Wouldn't it be sweet if estimated_extent could use the geometry index
when one *is* available? At least then there would be a standard,
documentable
way to get an always accurate "estimate" of the extent.

Jonne
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