| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tim Hart <tjhart(at)mac(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] line datatype |
| Date: | 2002-07-16 20:46:57 |
| Message-ID: | 200207161646.57963.lamar.owen@wgcr.org |
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On Tuesday 16 July 2002 04:42 pm, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > On the other hand, if you want to enter two points why don't you just
> > use lseg to begin with? There's not much justification for having a
> > separate line type unless it behaves differently ...
> They are different. One is infinite in length, the other is finite.
> Distances, etc are calculated differently between the two types.
For some of my work a type of 'ray' would be nice... :-) But LSEG's usually
work OK as long as you specify an endpoint that is far enough away.
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Lamar Owen
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