Re: Earth Distance patch - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: Earth Distance patch
Date
Msg-id 20020912152839.GA6554@wolff.to
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In response to Re: Earth Distance patch  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Earth Distance patch  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:35:49 -0400,
  Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> > The attached patch defines functions for getting distances between points
> > on the surface of the earth and locating points within a specified distance
> > using an index based on the contrib/cube package. The new functions are
> > all of language type sql.
>
> Is this bug fix, or new features?  We are past the point of accepting
> new features for 7.3.

Some of both.

I found some bugs in the original earthdistance code while trying to make
up regression tests.

If you would like I can split this. I can submit the bug fixes and a regression
test for the old stuff. And then after 7.3 comes out, resubmit the additional
documentation, functions (all of language type sql) and regression tests.

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