"Luke Lonergan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oops - I missed the point earlier.  Start and End are separate attributes so
> this is like an unbounded window in a Start,End space.  PostGis provides
> quadtree indexing would provide a terse TID list but you still have the
> problem of how to ensure that the heap tuples being scanned are efficiently
> retrieved, which would only happen if they are grouped similarly to the
> retrieval pattern, right?

Yeah, but I think that's a second-order problem compared to having an
index that's reasonably well matched to the query ...

                        regards, tom lane

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