Re: Bogus documentation for bogus geometric operators

Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com>

From: Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com>
To: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-11-04T09:32:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I've rebased and tested your proposed patch. It seems fine and sensible to me.

Thanks

> I have only one thing to note: as this patch doesn't disable <^ and >^ operator for boxes the existing state of documentation seem consistent to me:
>
> select '((0,0),(1,1))'::box <<| '((0,1),(1,2))'::box;
> ----------
>  f
>
> select '((0,0),(1,1))'::box <^ '((0,1),(1,2))'::box;
> ----------
>  t
>
> So I've only reverted the changes in the documentation on geometric functions in your patch.

You are right.  We need to keep the documentation for box operators,
but remove the lines for the point operators.



Commits

  1. Rename the "point is strictly above/below point" comparison operators.

  2. Remove deprecated containment operators for built-in types