Re: Bad behaviour on some geometric operations on degenerate polygons

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Josef Grahn <josef(dot)grahn(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bad behaviour on some geometric operations on degenerate polygons
Date: 2014-02-15 05:00:09
Message-ID: 1550.1392440409@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> What is odd however, is that we allow _explicit_ creation of zero-radius
> circles:

> test=> SELECT circle '<(1,1),0>';
> circle
> -----------
> <(1,1),0>
> (1 row)

> so why do we prevent the conversion of single-point polygons to circles
> with zero radius? I don't know.

Maybe we should rethink that. What you've done here seems like a kluge.

regards, tom lane

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