[postgis-devel] Recheck on Points broken

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 12:53:59AM -0500, Regina Obe wrote:

> https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3418#comment:9

> I'm assuming this has something to do with our float/float8 whatever calcs
> (though I thought we switched to float8 for index (or was that just for
> bbox) and index is still based on float4? )

Index is still float4

> Anyrate if there is nothing that can be done about ensuring index distance
> is always less or equal to actual distance

I remember we were all happy about having *real* distance with a more
recent PostgreSQL. If that's not the case (as the user reports) we should
try to find a way to provide both mechanisms. Two different operators, maybe ?

--strk;