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Re: Incorrect behaviour when using a GiST index on points

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-08-28T02:20:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:43:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I need someone to review this patch for 9.3.  We have already missed
> > fixing this for 9.2.
> 
> So put it in the next commitfest.
> 
> FWIW, I looked at this last week, and concluded I didn't have enough
> confidence in it to push it into 9.2 at the last minute.
> 
> There's also the big-picture question of whether we should just get rid
> of fuzzy comparisons in the geometric types instead of trying to hack
> indexes to work around them.  I'd really rather have us debate that
> question and resolve it one way or the other before spending time on the
> details of patches that take the second approach.

Done.

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