[postgis-devel] Boxes cache and type (was: Caching Double-based Boxes)

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:37:42PM +0100, Nicklas Avén wrote:

> But what I find ugly is if you query for the closest house to a lake and
> you get one answer if you query with knn and another answer if quering
> with st_distance or postgresql native. 

It's two different functions, isn't it ?
One is documented to return distance between center of bounding
box (with footnotes) and another is documented to return minimum
distance between the actual shapes.

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