[postgis-users] GIST index speed

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Paul,

"Paul Ramsey" <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:

> First, basic index concepts: when you are requesting the whole data
> set, the index (any index) does *nothing* for your performance.  To
> use an (obsolete) metaphor, if you are checking out *every* book in
> the library, do you first go to the card catalog?
> 
> So your test case isn't testing anything index related.

Acutally, when most geometries do not even touch the bounding box of
his given query geometry, an index could speed up the whole query.


Regards,
Markus

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