Re: Bogus documentation for bogus geometric operators
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: emre@hasegeli.com
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-04-28T17:33:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com> writes: >> Perhaps it's too late in the v13 cycle to actually do anything >> about this code-wise, but what should I do documentation-wise? >> I'm certainly not eager to document that these operators behave >> inconsistently depending on which type you're talking about. > I don't think we need to worry too much about doing something in the > v13 cycle. The geometric operators had and evidently still have so > many bugs. Nobody complains about them other than the developers who > read the code. Yeah, I ended up just documenting the current state of affairs. > I am happy to prepare a patch for the next release to fix the current > operators and add the missing ones. Sounds great! regards, tom lane
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Rename the "point is strictly above/below point" comparison operators.
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Remove deprecated containment operators for built-in types
- 2f70fdb0644c 14.0 cited