Re: Earthdistance update for 7.4 - depends on recent cube

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> The attached patches change earthdistance to use the new cube functions
> in one of the earth functions so that latitude and longitude to
> cartesian coordinates conversion will be more accurrate. (Previously
> a text string was built to provide as input which limited the accuracy
> to the number of digits printed.)
>
> The new functions were included in a recent patch to contrib/cube that has not
> as yet been accepted as of yet.
>
> I also added check constraints to the domain 'earth' since they are now
> working in 7.4.

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