[postgis-devel] ST_Equals, immutable strict

[strk]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 06:47:53AM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:

> Agree, but its technically not a bug.  Just laziness by design.  I suppose
> we could bring it up as a feature.  I once brought up something like that to
> Tom Lane regarding function costing (with OR that it doesn't), 
> and
> His argument was something to the effect "Yea I guess so" but takes more
> effort for that extra smartness for little beneift in speed.
> 
> I suspect that would be the case here.  
> 
> Cause think about it as you said both && and _ST_Intersects are strict
> anyway -- its going to be faster when you hit the NULLS even when you inline
> it because the other functions will catch it.

I agree. It makes no sense complaining about that missing STRICT
as we don't really need it anyway. STRICT is important when you code
something in C and want to be safe assuming you won't get NULLs in.
All the little wrappers meant to be used with indexing should be
completely fine w/out STRICT.

Thanks for bearing with late-comers :)

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