[postgis-tickets] [PostGIS] #2953: Unable to compute stats for some features

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#2953: Unable to compute stats for some features
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 Reporter:  pramsey  |       Owner:  pramsey      
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new          
 Priority:  high     |   Milestone:  PostGIS 2.1.5
Component:  postgis  |     Version:  2.1.x        
 Keywords:  stats    |  
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Comment(by pramsey):

 So, my fix just catches cases where a big double gets converted into an
 Inf float, and instead converts them into MAX_FLT/MIN_FLT (depending on
 whether it's positive or negative). I feel like that's "OK", in a
 practical sense, since we're talking about values > 10^38 here.

 Another solution would be to try and fit the estimation code to still fail
 in cases of Inf boxes, but instead to fail a bit more selectively, since
 in the case of this example it would be possible to compute a 2D stats
 histogram, just not a 4D one. Unfortunately a lot of the code works in the
 ND case and the 2D case is just a small specialization.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/2953#comment:1>
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