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		tpolzer on Nov 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How fast does interpolation search converge? If you're already using Postgres, isn't that precisely what GiST indexes are meant for?

unnouinceput on Nov 26, 2020 [–]

Yes, they are. But those are general approach. While a good approach my implementation was custom made for the client's need, allowing to achieve a better performance.

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