[postgis-users] ST_Intersects and NOT ST_Disjoint aren't equal?

[Martin Davis]

Sufficool, Stanley wrote:
>
> Would it be appropriate to make st_disjoint an SQL function just
> wrapping _NOT_ st_intersects(...) ?
>   
That's certainly how it's implemented in JTS and GEOS.   I think PostGIS 
has some more optimization code wrapped around that - but the same thing 
should be possible at the PostGIS C library level.

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Martin Davis
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