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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:19:32 -0600 (CST)
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From: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>
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To: vmehr@ctp.com
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Subject: [QUESTIONS] Re: Spatial data, R-Trees
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> From: Vivek Mehra <vmehr@ctp.com>
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> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:06:50 -0500
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> Am just starting out with PostgreSQL and would like to learn more about
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> the spatial data handling ablilities of postgreSQL - in terms of using
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> R-tree indexes, user defined types, operators and functions.
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> Would you be able to suggest where I could find some code and SQL to
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> look at to create these?
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Here's the setup for adding an operator '<@>' to give distance in
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statute miles between two points on the earth's surface. Coordinates
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are in degrees. Points are taken as (longitude, latitude) and not vice
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versa as longitude is closer to the intuitive idea of x-axis and
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latitude to y-axis.
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There's C source, Makefile for FreeBSD, and SQL for installing and
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testing the function.
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Let me know if anything looks fishy!
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A note on testing C extensions - it seems not enough to drop a function
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and re-create it - if I change a function, I have to stop and restart
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the backend for the new version to be seen. I guess it would be too
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messy to track which functions are added from a .so and do a dlclose
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when the last one is dropped.
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