[postgis-devel] PATCH: New positional operators based on Y position of bounding boxes

[strk at refractions.net]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:39:48AM -0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: strk at refractions.net [mailto:strk at refractions.net] 
> > Sent: 11 January 2005 11:23
> > To: Mark Cave-Ayland
> > Cc: 'PostGIS Development Discussion'
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-devel] PATCH: New positional operators 
> > based on Y position of bounding boxes
> > 
> > 
> > Happy New Year Mark!
> > That's Good Stuff to me.
> > Just... can vv &v ^^ &^ be used as operator names ?
> > --strk;
> 
> Hi strk,
> 
> Sadly not :(. I originally wanted to use a } instead of just | to indicate
> the direction of the Y-axis but even that character was not allowed - see
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-createoperator.html for valid
> characters. I also forgot to mention that I also removed mention of
> timelines from some of the comments of the R-Tree functions, since we are
> working with data with a purely geometric interpretation.

Your naming is good, and having dopped box2d operators I think Paul
won't be against adding these *useful* ones.

Then we should take a breath to plan release path.

--strk;

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> Mark.
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