Stefan, * Stefan Zweig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070907 10:07]: > thanks for your quick reply. i have tried your advice and rebuilded > all my gist indexes on the table (via drop index, create index) and > run a vacuum full afterwards. but that did not change the fact, that > the query on the_geom is much slower than the same one on the_geom_1. > [...] > > '...WHERE the_geom && expr;' takes about 250ms, > '...WHERE the_geom_envelope && expr;' takes about 20ms. > > ANALYZE says that GIST is used. As far as I know, the GIST makes use > only of the bounding boxes of Geometry objects, which are equal for > each object. How does it come that the query time using the_geom is more than > *ten times slower* than the query time using the_geom_envelope?"
It would help if you post the explain analyse output. Regards, Frank -- Frank Koormann | ++49-541-335 08 30 | http://www.intevation.net/ Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE | Commercial Register Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Managing Directors: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner PostGIS Support (http://www.intevation.net/geospatial/postgis-support.en.html) _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users