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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: type point
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:03:05 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 06:15:08AM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/datatype-geometric.html
> Description:
> 
> I think that the information on points should contain a sentence like this:
> "Order is Longitude, Latitude - so if you plot it as the map, it is (x,
> y)."
> 
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-geometric.html
> [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/47396542/1602492

Well, as I remember, our geometric types don't know anything about
longitude or latitude.  PostGIS does handle this, but it is a separate
project team.

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