On 7 Srpen 2012, 14:01, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi > > I have an interesting query to be optimized related to this one [1]. > > The query definition is: Select all buildings that have more than 1 > pharmacies and more than 1 schools within a radius of 1000m. > > The problem is that I think that this query is inherently O(n^2). In > fact the solution I propose below takes forever... What about plain INTERSECT? Something like SELECT osm_id FROM osm_poi AS p, osm_polygon b WHERE p.tags @> hstore('amenity','pharmacy') AND ST_DWithin(b.way,p.way,1000) INTERSECT SELECT osm_id FROM osm_poi AS p, osm_polygon b WHERE p.tags @> hstore('amenity','school') AND ST_DWithin(b.way,p.way,1000) Or something like that. But maybe it's a complete nonsense ... Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance