Addition to patched README.earthdistance

Started by Bruno Wolff IIIalmost 24 years ago3 messagespatches
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#1Bruno Wolff III
bruno@wolff.to

I wanted to add another two lines to my new README.earthdistance that
provides a suggestion for astronomers using the package. The note suggests
using a different value for the earth's radius that willgive distances
in degrees instead of meters, as this is more useful for star catalogs.

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#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Bruno Wolff III (#1)
Re: Addition to patched README.earthdistance

This patch doesn't match CVS at all. Was there another patch?

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:

I wanted to add another two lines to my new README.earthdistance that
provides a suggestion for astronomers using the package. The note suggests
using a different value for the earth's radius that willgive distances
in degrees instead of meters, as this is more useful for star catalogs.

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#3Bruno Wolff III
bruno@wolff.to
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#2)
Re: Addition to patched README.earthdistance

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:21:58 -0400,
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:

This patch doesn't match CVS at all. Was there another patch?

Yes, I will resend it though, since it was combined with a cube patch
that shouldn't be applied as the CVS contrib/cube matches what I
have. The new one will be the complete contrib/earthdistance patch
which includes regressions tests, a set of earth distance related
sql functions, some fixes for the original earth distance function
that uses the point datatype.