[postgis-devel] Does ST_Max_Distance work on anyone's install

[Paul Ramsey]

And there's the answer:

http://postgis.refractions.net/pipermail/postgis-devel/2004-August/000437.html

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it existed and worked at one point, because Dave wrote
> it originally for a particular data processing use case Refractions
> had. Why strk turned it off is for him to say :)
>
> P.
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
> <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
>> Obe, Regina wrote:
>>>
>>> http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ST_Max_Distance.
>>> html
>>>
>>> I noticed Robert Burgholzer tried to use it and couldn't either
>>> evidentally.  Though I thought it worked once upon a time.
>>
>> Strange. There is actually code in the function to "do things"TM but the
>> elog() at the top of the function causes it to exit straightaway!
>>
>> Looking at svn log you can see the following comments:
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> r756 | strk | 2004-08-26 17:55:09 +0100 (Thu, 26 Aug 2004) | 2 lines
>>
>> max_distance() raises an 'unimplemented yet' error.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> ...
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> r753 | strk | 2004-08-26 16:02:59 +0100 (Thu, 26 Aug 2004) | 2 lines
>>
>> Added (bogus) max_distance(geom,geom)
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> And the relevant commit diff is:
>>
>> pg83 at zeno:~/src/postgis-svn/trunk/lwgeom$ svn diff -r 755:756
>> lwgeom_functions_basic.c
>> Index: lwgeom_functions_basic.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- lwgeom_functions_basic.c    (revision 755)
>> +++ lwgeom_functions_basic.c    (revision 756)
>> @@ -1735,6 +1735,9 @@
>>        double maxdist = 0;
>>        int i;
>>
>> +       elog(ERROR, "This function is unimplemented yet");
>> +       PG_RETURN_NULL();
>> +
>>        geom1 = (LWGEOM *)PG_DETOAST_DATUM(PG_GETARG_DATUM(0));
>>        line1 = lwline_deserialize(SERIALIZED_FORM(geom1));
>>        if ( line1 == NULL ) PG_RETURN_NULL(); // not a linestring
>>
>>
>> I'd say from this that strk had a go at implementing this function but
>> realised it didn't work properly and so disabled it soon afterwards :(
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> --
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