"Mark Cave-Ayland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well at the moment PostGIS has a RESTRICT function that takes an expression > of the form <column> <op> <constant> where column is a column consisting of > geometries and constant is a bounding box. This is based upon histogram > statistics and works well.
Are these functions that would be useful for GiST indexes in general? What's involved in pulling them into a system? I mean, for example, a database using RTREE (or GiST I guess) boxes and the @ operator. I didn't realize anyone really had any idea where to start with gathering statistics or writing selectivity functions for geometric types. It's great news to hear there's actually work in this area. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])