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From: 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 13:42:14 -0700
Message-ID: <3D348526.CC9594FD@fourpalms.org> (raw)
References: <200207161538.g6GFcS925954@candle.pha.pa.us>
	<3D3444AE.ADAC6CD6@fourpalms.org>
	<13299.1026837027@sss.pgh.pa.us>

> >> No one likes entering an equation.  Two points seems the simplest.
> > That it does.
> 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.

                  - Thomas



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