From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: emre@hasegeli.com
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Bogus documentation for bogus geometric operators
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:33:24 -0400
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Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com> writes:
>> Perhaps it's too late in the v13 cycle to actually do anything
>> about this code-wise, but what should I do documentation-wise?
>> I'm certainly not eager to document that these operators behave
>> inconsistently depending on which type you're talking about.
> I don't think we need to worry too much about doing something in the
> v13 cycle. The geometric operators had and evidently still have so
> many bugs. Nobody complains about them other than the developers who
> read the code.
Yeah, I ended up just documenting the current state of affairs.
> I am happy to prepare a patch for the next release to fix the current
> operators and add the missing ones.
Sounds great!
regards, tom lane
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