Hello.

If I have a table like this

create table fleet ( ship_id   integer,  location point);

and fill it with a lot of ships and their locations and then want to
create an index on this to speed up operations on finding ships within
a certain region (let's say its a rectangular region), how do I do
this?

I tried:

CREATE INDEX my_index  ON fleet USING gist ( box(location,location)); ?

and that command worked, but I have no idea why and what I have just
done. The docs are a little to advanced.

How should one do it?

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