Uhmmm... So, if there's no join or where clause, the index is not used at all?
Somehow, I thought that internally ST_union would still use it to decide which geometries need be merged together in the same part. Thanks for clarifying. Alexandre Neto A segunda, 2/03/2020, 22:02, Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> escreveu: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 1:16 PM Alexandre Neto <senhor.n...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Stating the obvious, > > > > Do you have a spatial index on your geom column? > > That will make no difference, the query is reading the whole contents > of the column, a spatial index will do nothing. > > P > > > > > > Alexandre Neto > > > > A segunda, 2/03/2020, 17:04, Paul Ramsey <pram...@cleverelephant.ca> > escreveu: > >> > >> No, if it’s returning the answer you want, that’s the way to do it, and > there’s no way around it. > >> > >> > On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:25 AM, <paul.m...@lfv.se> <paul.m...@lfv.se> > wrote: > >> > > >> > Hi list, > >> > I would like to do this: > >> > CREATE TABLE public."Areas_union" AS select > (st_dump(st_union("the_geom"))).geom from "Areas"; > >> > > >> > But it takes such a long time to execute, is there a smarter way to > do it? > >> > > >> > Kind regards, > >> > Paul > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > postgis-users mailing list > >> > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > >> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> postgis-users mailing list > >> postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
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