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Re: Incorrect behaviour when using a GiST index on points

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, 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: 2012-08-28T20:38:36Z
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 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.

+1 for that approach, but only if I don't have to do the work.
Otherwise, +1 for doing the simplest thing that we're sure will
eliminate wrong answers.

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Robert Haas
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