PostGIS

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using PostGIS first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.

59%trust
4first-hand users
2in production
endorse 2mixed 0regret 1uses, no opinion

“without any issues whatsoever. Just using pg_upgrade and having the old versions packages in a temporary directory.”

endorse · production · tete · 2025-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“but it's really slow (6m points * 700 boxes, it's taking 20 minutes to scan the table)”

regret · personal · Fiahil · 2016-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“The results were better than expected. Not only it is faster (with PostGIS and ip4r extensions every que”

endorse · personal · takeda · 2015-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“I've been using PostGIS a ton at work in the past year”

neutral · production · 1 yr · jchmbrln · 2016-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?