[postgis-users] Seeking Funding for Faster PostGIS Indexes

[Paul Ramsey]

This is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to make your PostGIS an
order of magnitude faster... I'm surprised there has been so little
response!

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
> One of the eye-opening talks of PgCon last week was the presentation
> from Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev on their work on spatial
> partitioning indexes in PostgreSQL. Oleg and Teodor are the
> maintainers of the GiST framework we use for our r-tree, and are
> proposing a new framework to allow quad-tree and kd-tree
> implementations in PostgreSQL.
>
> http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html
>
> The upshot is, this new approach is as much as 6-times faster than the
> r-tree (at least for points). If you're interested in seeing PostGIS
> indexes get vastly faster, consider funding this project. Get in touch
> with me directly for details.
>
> http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/05/27/pgcon-notes-3/
>
> P.
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