[postgis-devel] About BOXES

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 09:27:46AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:

> >  1) keep BOX3D but deprecate it
> >    (have it raise WARNING messages on canonical input...)
> 
> Or, add the new BBOX type, drop the BOX3D, but retain 'BOX3D(...)'
> input as a valid alternate input syntax?

Won't work with 2002 syntax:

  WHERE the_geom && 'BOX3D(90900 190900, 100100 200100)'::box3d

box3d: type not found

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