[postgis-users] value of spatial index on 300, 000, 000 point geometries

[Simon Greener]

>                                                               With 1.4 you could also store
> your points as a geohash, which is pretty compact and can be indexed
> and searched with a b-tree.

I've used point-bucketing and hashing techniques in the past and 1.4 will help those of us 
who like to do this sort of thing, but for simple points (not buckets), is it fair to say, though, 
that the issue for ordinary users is whether this would be hidden behind PostGIS's indexing 
system such that PostGIS would automatically jump between the relevant index type on query?

For multipoints, lines and polygons....

CREATE INDEX bigpolygon_geom ON bigpolygon USING gist (geom);

For points (though existing gist could also be used)....

CREATE INDEX bigpoint_geom ON bigpoing USING geohash (geom);

(geohash might need to take parameters eg for morton key, the grid x and y size).

Comments?

S.
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