The following bug has been logged on the website:
Bug reference: 6399
Logged by: YAMAMOTO Takashi
Email address: [email protected]
PostgreSQL version: Unsupported/Unknown
Operating system: NetBSD
Description:
9.2devel
(01d83ffdcae92f75dbfd41de0b4213d241edd394)
knngist seems to assume that any distances can be represented with float8.
at least distances between int8 values can not.
the following example uses btree_gist extension.
results should be the same regardless of the existance of the index.
create temp table t (a int8);
insert into t values (9223372036854775806),(9223372036854775807);
select *,0<->a as dist from t order by dist;
create index on t using gist (a);
set enable_seqscan=off;
select *,0<->a as dist from t order by dist;
CREATE TABLE
INSERT 0 2
a | dist
---------------------+---------------------
9223372036854775806 | 9223372036854775806
9223372036854775807 | 9223372036854775807
(2 rows)
CREATE INDEX
SET
a | dist
---------------------+---------------------
9223372036854775807 | 9223372036854775807
9223372036854775806 | 9223372036854775806
(2 rows)
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