Re: KNN-GiST with recheck

On 08/03/2014 04:48 PM, Emre Hasegeli wrote:
>>> 1. This patch introduces a new "polygon <-> point" operator. That seems
>>> useful on its own, with or without this patch.
>>
>> Yeah, but exact-knn cant come with no one implementation. But it would
>> better come in a separate patch.
>
> I tried to split them. Separated patches are attached. I changed
> the order of the arguments as point <-> polygon, because point was
> the first one on all the others. Its commutator was required for
> the index, so I added it on the second patch. I also added tests
> for the operator. I think it is ready for committer as a separate
> patch. We can add it to the open CommitFest.

Ok, committed this part now with minor changes. The implementation was
copy-pasted from circle <-> polygon, so I put the common logic to a
dist_ppoly_internal function, and called that in both dist_cpoly and
dist_ppoly.

I was surprised that there were no documentation changes in the patch,
but looking at the docs, we just list the geometric operators without
explaining what the argument types are. That's not very comprehensive,
might be good to expand the docs on that, but it's not this patch's fault.

- Heikki