This is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to make your PostGIS an order of magnitude faster... I'm surprised there has been so little response!
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Paul Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the eye-opening talks of PgCon last week was the presentation > from Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev on their work on spatial > partitioning indexes in PostgreSQL. Oleg and Teodor are the > maintainers of the GiST framework we use for our r-tree, and are > proposing a new framework to allow quad-tree and kd-tree > implementations in PostgreSQL. > > http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/309.en.html > > The upshot is, this new approach is as much as 6-times faster than the > r-tree (at least for points). If you're interested in seeing PostGIS > indexes get vastly faster, consider funding this project. Get in touch > with me directly for details. > > http://blog.opengeo.org/2011/05/27/pgcon-notes-3/ > > P. > _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
