[postgis-devel] [PostGIS] #1018: Bbox search on geography can miss polygons

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#1018: Bbox search on geography can miss polygons
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  Reporter:  aaime    |       Owner:  pramsey      
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed       
  Priority:  high     |   Milestone:  PostGIS 1.5.3
 Component:  postgis  |     Version:  1.5.X        
Resolution:  invalid  |    Keywords:               
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Comment(by aaime):

 I see it. At the same time it seems to make geography data support
 unusable for WMS purposes.
 Should I cast everything to geometry when doing the typical wms bbox
 query? And in that case, wouldn't that result in indexing not being used?

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