Re: [SQL] line datatype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [SQL] line datatype
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Msg-id 200207161631.g6GGVnT02128@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [SQL] line datatype  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:
> >> No one likes entering an equation.  Two points seems the simplest.
> 
> > That it does.
> 
> On the other hand, if you want to enter two points why don't you just
> use lseg to begin with?  There's not much justification for having a
> separate line type unless it behaves differently ...

I assume the line type keeps going after the two end points, while lseg
doesn't.

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