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Re: [HACKERS] Hmm ... shouldn't path_distance be MIN distance not MAX distance? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Hmm ... shouldn't path_distance be MIN distance not MAX distance?
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In response to Hmm ... shouldn't path_distance be MIN distance not MAX distance?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> I just noticed that path_distance() in geo_ops.c (the "<->" operator
> for path datatype) claims to be computing the minimum distance between
> any two line segments of the two paths, but actually it's computing the
> maximum such distance.
> Isn't this broken?

Sure sounds like it :(

                  - Thomas

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