Fix line_construct_pm() for the case of "infinite" (DBL_MAX) slope.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 5154ebad98acd6a3b7aa0a196654b0244429cb98
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2010-11-10T21:55:07Z
Releases: 8.1.23
Fix line_construct_pm() for the case of "infinite" (DBL_MAX) slope.

This code was just plain wrong: what you got was not a line through the
given point but a line almost indistinguishable from the Y-axis, although
not truly vertical.  The only caller that tries to use this function with
m == DBL_MAX is dist_ps_internal for the case where the lseg is horizontal;
it would end up producing the distance from the given point to the place
where the lseg's line crosses the Y-axis.  That function is used by other
operators too, so there are several operators that could compute wrong
distances from a line segment to something else.  Per bug #5745 from
jindiax.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

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src/backend/utils/adt/geo_ops.c modified +11 −4