"Edwin Grubbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Under postgres 8.1, the "<<=" comparison yields very slow queries with large > tables.
<<= isn't optimizable within joins, and really isn't very suited to btree indexes at all. Sometime somebody should try to build a GiST opclass that supports network sub/sup comparisons ... seems like it should be pretty easy ... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly