Re: Chapter "8.8 Geometric Types" of documentation could contain more details

Sebastian Skałacki <skalee@gmail.com>

From: Sebastian Skałacki <skalee@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-07-04T11:38:15Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
Looks great to me, thanks!

śr., 3 lip 2024 o 21:45 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> napisał(a):
>
> PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> > Hi, I am writing to suggest a couple of clarifications to "8.8. Geometric
> > Types" documentation chapter.
>
> Fair points.  I am not really eager to say explicitly here that the
> set of available functions varies for the different types: that seems
> pretty self-evident.  But your other ideas are good.
>
> I also noted while looking at this that table 8.20 is flat out wrong
> about the storage size of "line" values: they are 24 bytes each not
> 32.  (This can be confirmed from pg_type.typlen or by looking at
> struct LINE in the source code.)
>
> How about the attached?
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>


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Regards,
Sebastian Skałacki



Commits

  1. Doc: small improvements in discussion of geometric data types.