Hi, Thank you for your answer. My EXPLAIN ANALYZE output can be found here: http://explain.depesz.com/s/Wbo . Also, there is a discution on this subject on dba.stackexchange.com: http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/45820/how-to-properly-index-hstore-tags-column-to-faster-search-for-keys
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Richard Huxton <d...@archonet.com> wrote: > On 07/07/13 08:28, Radu-Stefan Zugravu wrote: > >> Each node has a geometry column called geom and a hstore column >> called tags. I need to extract nodes along a line that have certain >> keys in the tags column. To do that I use the following query: >> > > SELECT id, tags >> FROM nodes >> WHERE ST_DWithin(nodes.geom, ST_MakeLine('{$geom1}', '{$geom2}'), 0.001) >> AND tags ? '{$type}'; >> > > CREATE INDEX nodes_tags_idx ON nodes USING GIN(tags); >> >> After creating the index I searched again for nodes using the same first >> query but there is no change in performance. >> >> How can I properly use GIN and GIST to index tags column so I can faster >> search for nodes that have a certain key in tags column? >> > > Your index definition looks OK. Try showing the output of EXPLAIN ANALYSE > for your query - that way we'll see if the index is being used. You can > always paste explain output to: http://explain.depesz.com/ if it's too > long for the email. > > -- > Richard Huxton > Archonet Ltd > -- Radu-Stefan Zugravu 0755 950 145 0760 903 464 raduzugrav...@gmail.com radu.zugr...@yahoo.com