diff --git a/doc/reference_operator.xml b/doc/reference_operator.xml index 91e7301f6..09a9efec6 100644 --- a/doc/reference_operator.xml +++ b/doc/reference_operator.xml @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ FROM = - Returns TRUE if A's bounding box is the same as B's. + Returns TRUE if A's bounding box is the same as B's. Uses double precision bounding box. @@ -596,6 +596,10 @@ FROM &curve_support; &P_support; + Changed: 2.0.0 , the bounding box of geometries was changed to use double precision instead of float4 precision of + prior. The side effect of this is that in particular points in prior versions that were a little different may have returned + true in prior versions and false in 2.0+ since their float4 boxes would be the same but there float8 (double precision), would be + different. @@ -627,7 +631,15 @@ GROUP BY column1; st_astext --------------------- LINESTRING(0 0,1 1) -(1 row) +(1 row) + +-- In versions prior to 2.0, this used to return true -- + SELECT ST_GeomFromText('POINT(1707296.37 4820536.77)') = + ST_GeomFromText('POINT(1707296.27 4820536.87)') As pt_intersect; + +--pt_intersect -- +f +