[postgis-devel] [postgis-users] Infinite loop in st_intersects - because of incorrect data out of st_transform?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at opengeo.org
Thu May 12 09:38:04 PDT 2011


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
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> Not sure we want to refuse to accept inf coordinates though,
> as long as ST_IsValid can catch them, but most importantly
> as long as you can have them in your backups...

What's the use case for Inf coordinates? Or NaN coordinates? There's
no real-world ones, are there? and once we're painted into that corner
computationally I'm not sure how we get back out.

P.



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