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Curious results from pg_stat_user_indexes

PostgreSQL 12.8, PostGIS 3.1.4 Running select * from pg_stat_user_indexes, there are some rows that have 0 for idx_scan, and a >0 result for idx_tup_read. The indexes that match this condition are ...
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I have a GIST index and a regular index, one intended for filtering, one intended for sorting, but Postgres WILL NOT use both

I have a table with three columns: two can be used to filter the table, and the last can be used to sort it: create table thing( id serial primary key, location geometry(Point, 4326) not null, ...
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Is a GIST index on a geometry point useful to speed up a spatial query?

I have multiple tables with point geometries and a GiST index eating many gigabits of space. From what I understand about GiST indexes on polygons or polylines, it will store the bounding box and ...
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Postgresql bad planning with multicolumn gist and search with empty results

I'm having an issue with a multicolumn index (integer, geom), where geom are PostGIS points, and the integer is a point aggregator with business meaning. I do searches by boxes in the geom column, ...
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Why PostGIS GIST index is not used? [closed]

I am using PostGIS 2.2.1 with PostgreSQL 9.5.10. I have a table with a geography field for coordinates and I am making a simple bounding box query. The table has 1029 rows. EXPLAIN says it does a ...
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PostgreSQL: Improve system performance, KNN modification with GiST Index

In my PostgreSQL 9.5beta2, Postgis 2.2.0 compiled by Visual C++ build 1800, 64-bit I am running a Nearest-Neighbor-Query with the additional complication of unique assignment. I am running this on i5-...
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PostGis getting rid of the lat long from table

This question is related to this question : Order by distance Now my tables have changed a bit. Table cafes now doesn't have latitude, longitude columns instead there are table addresses which ...
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Order by distance

If I have a query returning nearby cafes: SELECT * FROM cafes c WHERE ( ST_DWithin( ST_GeographyFromText( 'SRID=4326;POINT(' || c.longitude || ' ' || c.latitude || ')' ), ...
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Best read performance when every query is known, and the data doesn't change

I'm trying to maximise performance on an underpowered PostGIS server - 1 core, 4 CPUs. The data (OpenStreetMap) will be infrequently (monthly?) loaded, and never changes otherwise. Each of the 30 or ...
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