Re: patch earthdistance.sgml (add geo_distance function description)

Ioseph Kim <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry, Ignore this patch.
I was confused with cube-based distance and point-based distance.


On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 01:12:49AM +0900, Ioseph Kim wrote:
> $ diff -urN earthdistance.sgml.orig earthdistance.sgml
> --- earthdistance.sgml.orig     2019-01-29 00:59:46.066302968 +0900
> +++ earthdistance.sgml  2019-01-29 01:07:56.814501839 +0900
> @@ -120,6 +120,13 @@
>        </entry>
>       </row>
>       <row>
> +      <entry><function>geo_distance(point, point)</function><indexterm><primary>geo_distance</primary></indexterm></entry>
> +      <entry><type>float8</type></entry>
> +      <entry>Returns distance between the points in miles on earth's surface. A
> +       point is composed with longitude(x) and latitude(y).
> +      </entry>
> +     </row>
> +     <row>
>        <entry><function>earth_box(earth, float8)</function><indexterm><primary>earth_box</primary></indexterm></entry>
>        <entry><type>cube</type></entry>
>        <entry>Returns a box suitable for an indexed search using the cube
> 
>
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