Re: Earth Distance patch

This was the email that prompted the second, smaller page.  Do we
feature freeze beta?

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:35:49 -0400,
>   Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
> > > The attached patch defines functions for getting distances between points
> > > on the surface of the earth and locating points within a specified distance
> > > using an index based on the contrib/cube package. The new functions are
> > > all of language type sql.
> >
> > Is this bug fix, or new features?  We are past the point of accepting
> > new features for 7.3.
>
> Some of both.
>
> I found some bugs in the original earthdistance code while trying to make
> up regression tests.
>
> If you would like I can split this. I can submit the bug fixes and a regression
> test for the old stuff. And then after 7.3 comes out, resubmit the additional
> documentation, functions (all of language type sql) and regression tests.
>
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