[postgis-users] incorrect st_distance

[Rhys A.D. Stewart]

Ooops!!!!

False alarm; I didnt realise that there was an e after the number so
what i thought was 6.4910745m was actually 6.4910745e005.
I guess ill expand all my pgadmin columns from now on.
Sorry 'bout that!!!

Rhys



On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Nicklas Avén
<nicklas.aven at jordogskog.no> wrote:
> Hallo Rhys
>
> What version of postgis are you using?
> Do you have any example data?
>
> Thanks
> Nicklas
>
> 2010-01-12 Rhys A.D. Stewart wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>>
>>i was under the impression the st_distance returned the smallest
>>distance between two geometries, but i have several instances where
>>the st_distance returned between a point and a linestring is greater
>>than that returned for the st_distance between the same point and
>>startpoint(linestring). Is this a bug?
>>
>>Rhys
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