[postgis-users] Optimizing nearest neighbor search with conditions

2012-10-29 Thread Doug Cole
I recently updated a postgresql database to use postgis 2.0.1 - I am trying to improve the performance of our nearest neighbor queries using the new - operator, but ran into an issue. Our nearest neighbor query also has a handful of other conditions beyond just distance. For the majority of

Re: [postgis-users] Optimizing nearest neighbor search with conditions

2012-10-29 Thread Paul Ramsey
Unless you can draw a set from the ordering that is large enough to always contain a result that passes your filters, I think you're out of luck. The reality is that the ordering operators are quite limited, there's all sorts of useful things one would like to do with them (table join on nearest,