[postgis-devel] GBOXF

[Paul Ramsey]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Olivier Courtin
<olivier.courtin at oslandia.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> One way to ensure consistency would be to make
>> the GBOX actually be float (GBOXF). I recall you were very happy to
>> have GBOX replace BOX2FLOAT4. Was that because GBOX is higher
>> dimensional or because it is double based, or both?
>
> Both in fact,
> As double bbox are really convenient as our datas are double based.

What aspect (aside from dimensionality) of the float box was problematic?

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