Re: BUG #4967: polygon @> point incorrect for points close to shared borders - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #4967: polygon @> point incorrect for points close to shared borders
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Msg-id 3982.1249570594@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to BUG #4967: polygon @> point incorrect for points close to shared borders  ("Paul Matthews" <plm@netspace.net.au>)
Responses Re: BUG #4967: polygon @> point incorrect for points close to shared borders  (Paul Matthews <plm@netspace.net.au>)
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"Paul Matthews" <plm@netspace.net.au> writes:
> A number of points close to the common border claimed they fell into both of
> the polygons.

How close is "close"?  There's some pretty arbitrary fuzzy-comparisons
logic in the geometric datatypes ... see FPeq() and friends.  That might
be doing it to you.

            regards, tom lane

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