Re: Comments on Exclusion Constraints and related datatypes

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-03-22T16:02:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Simon Riggs wrote:
>>  
>> Basically, what you feel is missing is documentation that if two
>> shapes share one or more points they are considered to overlap;
>> there is no requirement that they share an area?
>>     
>
> Yes, for most people touching != overlap. So it just looks like a bug.
>
>   

I guess I must be strange, then, it doesn't strike me as particularly 
unnatural. By all means document it, though, if the docs are not clear 
on the point.

cheers

andrew