[postgis-users] Definition of St_Distance in case of 2 non point geometries

[Peter Hopfgartner]

Thanks for the reply. I have a bizarre behavior with version 1.5.8/GEOS 
3.3.3.  I'll try to extract a test case in order to discuss it in more 
detail.

Thanks for the replies,

Peter

On 10/18/2013 03:39 PM, Nicklas Avén wrote:
> If I understand you right your assumption is true.
>
> What makes you wondering?
>
> In 2d you will always get the distance to a vertexpoint in at least 
> one of the two geometries.
>
> You can use ST_ShortestLine to see between what points the distance is 
> calculated.
>
> So:
>
> SELECT ST_Distance('LINESTRING(1 1, 1 10)'::geometry, 'LINESTRING(2 5, 
> 10 5)'::geometry);
>  returns 1
> and
> SELECT ST_AsText(ST_ShortestLine('LINESTRING(1 1, 1 10)'::geometry, 
> 'LINESTRING(2 5, 10 5)'::geometry));
> returns 'LINESTRING(1 5, 2 5)'::geometry
>
> geography type calculations is of course another story.
>
>
> HTH
>
> Nicklas
>
>
>
>
> 2013-10-18 Peter Hopfgartner wrote:
>
> I took it for granted, that ST_Distance between two two dimensional
> >geometries followes the definition of
> >
> >dist(A, B) = inf(d(a,b)), where a is an arbitrary point in set A and b
> >an arbitrary point in set B and d() is the euclidean distance
> >
> >For some reason I'm now wondering if my assumption is true.
> >
> >Thanks for your patience,
> >
> >Peter
> >
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