can I index a field of type "point"?

Hello!


Is there a way to index a point field? The obvious method didn't work
for me:
mark=> create index lon_lat_idx on zip (lon_lat);
ERROR:  Can't find a default operator class for type 600

I'm using Postgres v 6.5.3
 Thanks,
    -mark
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