[postgis-devel] GBOXF

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 09:53:33AM -0800, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> OK, so it sounds like the way forward is to basically keep what we
> have now, which is a double GBOX, but with care taken that we populate
> it it with float-rounded versions of the bounds, so that
> demand-generated boxes match cached boxes. This will need to be
> documented, but if we move to doing bbox access via an accessor
> instead of directly referencing the object the number of pain points
> should go down hopefully.
> 
> I will move forward with new bbox work on the above basis, and abandon
> the doublebox experiment.

Sounds good to me. 

Of course a new type will still pose the "float or double" question.
As well as it was posed (they tell me) by ST_Extent.

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