From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tim Hart <tjhart@mac.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] line datatype
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:46:57 -0400
Message-ID: <200207161646.57963.lamar.owen@wgcr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D348526.CC9594FD@fourpalms.org>
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On Tuesday 16 July 2002 04:42 pm, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > On the other hand, if you want to enter two points why don't you just
> > use lseg to begin with? There's not much justification for having a
> > separate line type unless it behaves differently ...
> They are different. One is infinite in length, the other is finite.
> Distances, etc are calculated differently between the two types.
For some of my work a type of 'ray' would be nice... :-) But LSEG's usually
work OK as long as you specify an endpoint that is far enough away.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11
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