[postgis-devel] Could patch in #810 be applied?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 01/02/11 10:17, Peter Hopfgartner wrote:

> We use internally the patch in http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/810 and are quite happy with the improvement.
> Could it be applied? I can provide a version for trunk, too.
>
> Peter Hopfgartner

Hmmmm so it looks as if it is just shifting the origin from (0 0) to the 
first vertex (and hence allows an increase in precision in these cases?).

I think the comment needs to be expanded more, but I don't see an issue 
with the overall approach. Perhaps more a candidate for trunk rather 
than 1.5 though as it will potentially change the regression test output 
and real calculation results.


ATB,

Mark.

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