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23rd March 2021

TIL Closest locations to a point — Here's a PostgreSQL SQL query that returns the closest locations to a point, based on a brute-force approach where the database calculates the distance (in miles) to every single row and then sorts by that distance.

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Posted 23rd March 2021 at 5:19 am

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