Re: How do I create a box from fields in a table?

Rob Richardson <RDRichardson(at)rad-con(dot)com> writes:
> In my opinion, that is ugly to the point of uselessness.

Indeed :-(

For some reason, there's no constructor function to make a box from four
floats. But there is a box constructor that takes two points, as well
as a point constructor that takes two floats; so you could do something
like

box(point(location, 1), point(2, 3))

regards, tom lane