Re: Making small bits of code available

What would be really valuable would be to add your routines to
/contrib/earthdistance.  Is that possible?

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:58:00 -0400,
>   Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > /contrib/earthdistance already exists.  Is this new functionality?
>
> This works with cube instead of point. If you use point hold latitude and
> longitude you have to worry about whether you will have data near 180
> degrees of longitude or near the poles. This may not be a problem if
> your data is mostly on one continent.
>
> The script I have is most grant calls for the cube functions. Since cube
> needs to be installed as postgres (or other super user), most likely
> you want to grant execute to public on the provided functions. (I don't
> know if you need to do this for ones just used be the gist stuff.)
>
> The stuff people might want to see are a few sql functions for getting
> to and from latitude and longitude and cube (as domain earth) and some
> functions related to getting the size of boxes to use for searching for
> points within a great circle distance of a specified point.
>
> If 5K isn't too much I could post it to the list and it will get archived
> and people that are interested can find it with google and can take what they
> want from the code.
>
> This stuff isn't packaged up neatly for a contrib with a regression test
> and all. Probably people who use this will want to tinker with it before
> using it themselves.
>
> The function prototypes extracted from the file are:
> create function earth() returns float8 language 'sql' immutable as
> create function sec_to_gc(float8) returns float8 language 'sql'
> create function gc_to_sec(float8) returns float8 language 'sql'
> create function ll_to_earth(float8, float8) returns earth language 'sql'
> create function latitude(earth) returns float8 language 'sql'
> create function longitude(earth) returns float8 language 'sql'
> create function earth_distance(earth, earth) returns float8 language 'sql'
> create function earth_box(earth, float8) returns cube language 'sql'
>

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