[postgis-devel] ST_AddBox ST_DropBox

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Obe, Regina wrote:
> Do we still use these?  I thought these automatically happen?  
> I'm tempted to just drop them from the docs, but not sure if there is a
> reason to keep them.
> 
> ST_AddBBOX(geometry)
> 
>     Add bounding box to the geometry. This would make bounding box based
> queries faster, but will increase the size of the geometry.
> 
> ST_DropBBOX(geometry)
> 
>     Drop the bounding box cache from the geometry. This reduces geometry
> size, but makes bounding-box based queries slower.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regina


Hi Regina,

I don't really see a need for anyone other than developers to use these 
functions, so I would suggest that you remove them from the user manual 
and just document the functionality within the comments in the 
lwpostgis.sql.in.c file.


ATB,

Mark.

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