[postgis-devel] Death to Pointless Operators

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Paul Ramsey wrote:

> I vote that we Destroy, Destroy, Destroy, leaving behind only
> 
> &&  bbox overlaps
> @  bbox within
> ~  bbox contains
> ~=  bbox same
> 
> P.

-1. I definitely have a use case for geometry_left/below/right/above 
which is you can use a binary search to quickly find the real extent of 
a stupidly large dataset using only the index.

Secondly, the operators are synchronised with the PostgreSQL R-Tree 
operators and so we could potentially prevent users from moving their 
application from native PostgreSQL over to PostGIS.


ATB,

Mark.

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