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John Porvaznik
John Porvaznik
pgRouting is a powerful routing tool, usually used for pathfinding/mapping/direction applications. (See Paul Ramsey's introduction to pgRouting here). It is, however, also a robust graph db implementation, and can be used for much more than just finding the directions to your great aunt Tildy’s.
John Porvaznik
John Porvaznik
Postgres has a number of different index types. You’ve got B-Tree, GIN, GiST, Sp-GiST, and BRIN. BRIN is a lightweight index that often goes misunderstood. When implemented correctly, it offers significant benefits such as space savings and speed. However, when implemented incorrectly, it loses some of its benefit, so it's important to look at some of the reasons a BRIN index might not be right for you.