[postgis-users] ST_Overlaps and performance

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Bob Basques wrote:

> if (x > minx && x < max && y > miny && y < maxy) then true. .



This is precisely the kind of problem that GiST solves. The above query is not likely to be better than a spatial query.




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Puneet Kishor