Mark Stosberg <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sample EXPLAIN output and query times are below. > Seq Scan on zipcodes (cost=0.00..1257.54 rows=41483 width=22) > (actual time=0.019..84.543 rows=41483 loops=1) > Index Scan using zipcodes_knn on zipcodes (cost=0.00..5365.93 > rows=41483 width=22) (actual time=0.451..141.590 rows=41483 > loops=1) I thought the benefit of KNN was that you could retrieve the rows in distance order, so that a query for the closest 20 locations (for example) would be very fast. I wouldn't have expected it to be helpful when you're selecting all the rows regardless of distance. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
