Re: How do I create a box from fields in a table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: How do I create a box from fields in a table?
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In response to Re: How do I create a box from fields in a table?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Rob Richardson <RDRichardson@rad-con.com> writes:
>> In my opinion, that is ugly to the point of uselessness.
>
> Indeed :-(
>
> For some reason, there's no constructor function to make a box from four
> floats.  But there is a box constructor that takes two points, as well
> as a point constructor that takes two floats; so you could do something
> like
>
>         box(point(location, 1), point(2, 3))


shoot -- I thought so -- I looked for that, and didn't find it.  hm,
perhaps the geographical type documentation needs some TLC.

merlin


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