Re: Comments on Exclusion Constraints and related datatypes

Greg Stark wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> >
> > * Circles, Boxes and other geometric datatypes defined "overlaps" to
> > include touching shapes. So
> >
> > * inet datatypes don't have a commutative operator on which a unique
> > index can be built. There is no "overlaps" equivalent, which again is a
> > shame because that stops them being used with the new feature.
> 
> I think our unusual data types are one of the strong points of
> Postgres but they're missing a lot of operators and opclasses to make
> them really useful.
> 
> There's no reason we couldn't have separate overlaps and
> overlaps-internally operators just like we have <=,>= and <,>. And it
> would be nice to flesh out the network data type more fully, perhaps
> merging in as much of ip4r as makes sense.

Added to TODO:
Add overlaps geometric operators that ignore point overlaps
    * http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-03/msg00861.php 

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