[postgis-users] postgis-users Digest, Vol 91, Issue 5

[William Temperley]

> Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
>> More to the point, it's a float32 box, not a double64 box. Your two
>> points are in fact different, waaaaaay down deep into the precision of
>> their 64-bit double coordinates. So deep in fact that the human
>> readable decimal representations don't show it (look at the hexewkb
>> output, and you'll see the differences, you should be able to do that,
>> points are small enough to eyeball in hex).
>>
>> So when the 32-bit box is extracted from the 64-bit doubles, the
>> points are identical at that level of precision and = returns true,
>> while st_equals working against the doubles does not.
>>
>> P
>
> Again, another demonstration as to why BOX2DFLOAT4s should never be used
> for calculations and only for internal "within" checks :(
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.
>

Thanks for this. I hadn't realized geom = geom was a bounding box
comparison.

Will
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