Thanks, Chris and Tom.
I had read *incorrectly* that rtrees are better for <= and >= comparisons.
Chris
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:33:48 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne
<chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> wrote:
> > I'm storing some timestamps as integers (UTF) in a table and I want to
> > query by <= and >= for times between a certain period. The table has
> > gotten quite large and is now very slow in querying.
> >
> > I think it's time to create an index for the timestamp column.
>
> Uh, yeah.
>
> > I tried using an rtree (for <= and >= optimization):
>
> Bad idea.
>
> > Do I have to create an rtree type for my timestamp integer column?
>
> Why do you want an rtree index? They're for multidimensional polygonal
> data and stuff. Just create a normal index...
>
> Chris
>
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