On 29/03/12 12:36, Kasper Sandberg wrote:
Yeah I will try provide a patch.

I am not entirely certain how the wording should be, but I only understood that the cube based aproach is by default in meters after testing it out, though now of course it occurs to me that of course it is, given the math involved and that earth() is in meters, but i still feel that it should be pointed out that the cube based functions will, by default, due to earth() using meters, be in meters.

I will sleep on it a day or two and suggest a patch.

On 28/03/12 23:43, Kevin Grittner wrote:
<kont...@sandberg-consult.dk>  wrote:

looking at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/earthdistance.html

it looks very scarce and missing, and conflicting, some things
operate based on miles, others meters. it also doesnt specify the
units used for earth_distance() which seems to be meters.

Any chance you could submit a patch to the source file?:

doc/src/sgml/earthdistance.sgml

... or, barring that, suggest particular language at particular
line numbers in the source based on the gitweb page?:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=doc/src/sgml/earthdistance.sgml;h=f9002b235b83d8e2facd9164a66db46792f6e54a;hb=HEAD

-Kevin


Should be 'metres' not 'meters'! :-)



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