Doc: small improvements in discussion of geometric data types.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:23:32 +0000 (13:23 -0400)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Thu, 4 Jul 2024 17:23:32 +0000 (13:23 -0400)
commit7f9c71519143b6aec71df068e022ddbe33bcc0d3
tree58456b54bcf4e2fdd16a96e6b0b768d43dad24ed
parente72f841cbec12b60dbfcde6e4aaeec8ecab987c4
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