[postgis-devel] Death to Pointless Operators

Paul Ramsey pramsey at opengeo.org
Sat Dec 18 08:48:58 PST 2010


Do we have to drag the following operators forward into the new
regime? I find it hard to imagine use cases for:

 << geometry_left
&< geometry_overleft
<<| geometry_below
&<| geometry_overbelow
&> geometry_overright
>> geometry_right
|&> geometry_overabove
|>> geometry_above

I vote that we Destroy, Destroy, Destroy, leaving behind only

&&  bbox overlaps
@  bbox within
~  bbox contains
~=  bbox same

P.



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