Re: REGARDING ADDING A DATATYPE LIKE POLYGON - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: REGARDING ADDING A DATATYPE LIKE POLYGON
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Msg-id CAHyXU0wGA45noC7V6vv-uQdFN3YaZvensQipiRegvkBVsmeggg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to REGARDING ADDING A DATATYPE LIKE POLYGON  (Bibek Behera <bibek.iitkgp@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Bibek Behera <bibek.iitkgp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Where in the postgres source code should we make changes to run a sql query
> like
> create table test(a polygon2)

postgres has a polygon type.  the built in postgres geometric types
are useful for storage and basic searching; if you need more than that
check out postgis (which is a heavy dependency so only use it if you
really need it).

merlin

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