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Doc: small improvements in discussion of geometric data types.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:23:32 +0000 (13:23 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:23:32 +0000 (13:23 -0400)
commitac2ec6c57b38ea5baec08ef01d9cbabf1565017e
tree578efaab6412a7fbbbab427ce35695d29f9ce022
parent65b51c75415dde0a1782870d4746208438e7b3b4
Doc: small improvements in discussion of geometric data types.

State explicitly that the coordinates in our geometric data types are
float8.  Also explain that polygons store their bounding box.

While here, fix the table of geometric data types to show type
"line"'s size correctly: it's 24 bytes not 32.  This has somehow
escaped notice since that table was made in 1998.

Per suggestion from Sebastian SkaƂacki.  The size error seems
important enough to justify back-patching.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/172000045661.706.1822177575291548794@wrigleys.postgresql.org
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml